Problem resolution techniques

[Chris Martin]

> 
> You should probably re-cvsup the ports at some point to ensure that the
> problem wasn't a temporary glitch which has since been fixed.

We are pretty on the money about keeping ports CVSUP'd.

> >What is a good next step, and at which point do we bug the questions
> mailing
> >list or the code maintainers? Is there a way for non-developers to get
> >useful information about the dump themselves, saving them bothering the
> >developers with yet another "it don't work, here are my system settings
> and
> >installed apps, please help" e-mails?
> 
> There is a FAQ entry which you may find useful:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-
> PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING


I will check it out. Thanks for the first step!