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

[Edwin L. Culp]

Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> escribió:

> eculp wrote:
>> 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.
>
> See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging.
>
> However, panics that "suddenly" start happening frequently on a  
> system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload  
> changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail.
>
> Kris

I got as far as I could.  I recompiled the kernel with debuging and  
waited for a new panic.  I got the fourth one a few minutes ago and  
went as far as I could with the handbook.

  #  kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.4
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Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address	= 0x0
fault code		= supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer	= 0x20:0xc0716ba9
stack pointer	        = 0x28:0xe6d2bc4c
frame pointer	        = 0x28:0xe6d2bc4c
code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process		= 13 (swi4: clock sio)
trap number		= 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 1d4h34m22s
Physical memory: 3315 MB
Dumping 273 MB: 258 242 226 210 194 178 162 146 130 114 98 82 66 50 34 18 2

Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/mfi_linux.ko...Reading symbols from  
/boot/kernel/mfi_linux.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/mfi_linux.ko
Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko...Reading symbols from  
/boot/kernel/acpi.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/acpi.ko
Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/fdescfs.ko...Reading symbols from  
/boot/kernel/fdescfs.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/fdescfs.ko
#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:195
195		__asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td));

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That is as far as I got, any suggestions appreciated. I'm going to  
check the others and see if the get further.


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