From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 18:05:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059D816A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:05:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C42B43D4C for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pumice6.sentex.ca (pumice6.sentex.ca [64.7.153.21]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8LI5bwG071019 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:05:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by pumice6.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8LI5aMB043484; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:05:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8LI5ZnG010612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:05:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.0.20050921140229.069e6728@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:06:01 -0400 To: Kris Kennaway , Vinod Kashyap From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20050921175326.GA81378@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <2B3B2AA816369A4E87D7BE63EC9D2F26B55B96@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com> <20050921175326.GA81378@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.7.153.18 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.7.153.21 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOR on RELENG_6, beta 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:05:39 -0000 At 01:53 PM 21/09/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > > I am able to replicate this on the box without too much effort. > > > > Unfortunately, it doesnt want to dump on my twe device for > > > some reason > > > > despite doing a dumpon -v /dev/twed0s1b > > > > > > Dumps on twe seem to be broken. vinod, have you made any > > > progress on this since last we spoke? > > > > > > > Like I told you earlier, I tried reproducing the problem both on 7 > > -CURRENT, > > and RELENG_6, but couldn't. Dumping on twe seems to work just fine. > >And what of those of us for whom dumping does not, in fact, work fine? Actually in my case it was the watchdog killing the machine. From the debugger prompt, I can do a call doadump and it seems to write it out just fine and at bootup it recovers the core as expected. # ls -l /var/crash/vm* -rw------- 1 root wheel 1061322752 Sep 21 13:48 /var/crash/vmcore.37 ---Mike