kernel panic messages?

[Ben Paley]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 7:37 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:07:04PM +0000, Ben Paley wrote:
> > I want to submit information about a kernel panic which happens at boot
> > time. The machine reboots and I can boot kernel.old: where do I find the
> > logs and traces and things I might need to show to someone who knows what
> > they're doing?
>
> You need to setup your machine to capture the appropriate data after
> the panic.  There's general information about how to do that in a
> series of articles here:
>
>     http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>     http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

I've got myself a core dump and a kernel.debug, and I know at least enough to 
start gdb - thanks to the articles you pointed me to: thanks for that (I 
don't really know what I'm doing, however).

I tried submitting a trancript of my gdb session to the freebsd-current list, 
but haven't had a reply, which I guess is my fault for some ignorance of 
something... what do I need to include, do you think, to make my request 
acceptable to the busy people on the list? (Obviously you are not busy at all 
and I can waste your time as much as I like ;-) Apart from making sure I'm 
working with recent sources.

Or is it worth posting it all on this list?

What this all really means, of course, is that I'm too ignorant to be running 
current at all. But now that I'm here... well, thanks for your help, anyway.

Cheers,
Ben