Unfortunately, I had a crash earlier on my FreeBSD server. It’s probably due to bad hardware. But I decided to take a look at the dumpfile anyway. The best resource is the FreeBSD handbook section on Debugging a Kernel Crash Dump with kgdb. That’s invaluable.
Sadly, it didn’t tell me much:
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x8
fault code = supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc04c8f79
stack pointer = 0x28:0xd13ddb44
frame pointer = 0x28:0xd13ddb54
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 864 (squid)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
So at the time, squid was sitting around waiting for things to happen (the stacktrace showed it as being inside poll()) and the machine blew up. Darn. Ah well, the standard response is to just make world and try again.
Jabbering Giraffe 