From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 6 8:29:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FCF37B56D for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.155.7]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FU5009GP9OHVP@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:29:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA08575; Sat, 06 May 2000 10:29:37 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:29:37 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: how do I save crash dumps... (fwd) In-reply-to: To: "G.B.Naidu" Cc: jkb@ethereal.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000506102937.L547@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, May 04, 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote: > I am sorry to post this question on this list. I know that this should go > on to -questions list. I have posted it there but no body replied. Please > read the following forwarded mail. I dont know why I am not able to save > the core. Am I missing something? Oops, more specifically: > I made sure that dumping is enabled using the command: sysctl kern.dumpdev > Thre output of the command is as follows: > > kern.dumpdev: { major = 0, minor = 131073 } > > When it paniced, it dumped something and said it succeded. > > But when I booted on a different good kernel, there is a line on the > screen saying: checking for coredump ... savecore: no core dump Are you booting all the way to multi-user mode? You'd need to configure kern.dumpdev via dumpon(8) if not. -- |Chris Costello |The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. `-------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message