reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

[eculp]

Quoting eculp <eculp at casasponti.net>:

> This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up  
> to date stable.  I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be  
> provoking these crashes.  In fact in many years of running FreeBSD  
> I've not seen something just happen like this.  It is a  
> simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a  
> new world and kernel.  Ports are updated about once a week and  
> haven't seen any issues previously.  It has been running 24/7 since  
> new, about 8 months.
>
> 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore.  The info file follows:
>
> Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b
>   Architecture: i386
>   Architecture Version: 2
>   Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB)
>   Blocksize: 512
>   Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008
>   Hostname: casasponti.net
>   Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
>   Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008
>     root at casasponti.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
>   Panic String: page fault
>   Dump Parity: 2395754794
>   Bounds: 2
>   Dump Status: good
>
> the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on  
> line at a moments notice.  I think that what I need is probably a  
> crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to  
> start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it.   
> Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Forgot I did try to debug but got nowhere:

/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(kgdb)

Ignorance, I'm sure.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ed
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