[cfarm-users] cfarm439 crashes and downtime

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

On 6/5/26 05:03, Luke Yasuda via cfarm-users wrote:
> Hi cfarm439 users,
>
> Sorry, this email was sitting in my "Draft" folder for too long. As 
> you know cfarm439 is a FreeBSD powerpc64le system. These days, 
> cfarm439 keeps crashing everyday and I have basically no clue what's 
> going on. Every time it crashes, it drops to FreeBSD kernel debugger, 
> I have to restart it manually, so much it became one of my 
> morning/evening routines. But when I'm traveling (like now), it's a 
> pain to do it over a high latency 4G LTE mobile hotspot ssh 
> connection, besides some small security concerns. Please forgive my 
> "mild to severe" delay in dealing with cfarm439.
>
> The good news is, in about 3 weeks I'll be back at ~/ to resume my 
> maintenance duty. Meanwhile, questions for cfarm439 users: anyone has 
> any idea what could cause the crash? Anyone setup things like daily 
> cron job that may or may not have caused some issues? Anyone has any 
> idea how I can help fix this issue?

I vaguely remember a previous thread with a similar issue of a crashing 
FreeBSD host.  I seem to recall that it looked like a known bug that had 
been fixed in the current kernel.  Could this be the same problem?

What is the backtrace when it drops to the kernel debugger, i.e. where 
is it crashing?


-- Jacob