Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:43:55 -0700 From: Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OS bug in taskq Message-ID: <8249m3pqc4qn9g2dt2got69m40hl77aslv@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <20071215235810.GA81924@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <m4c8m3lpt31svrvlb5jcj04nsnhffv1e6r@4ax.com> <20071215235810.GA81924@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:58:10 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Elliot Finley wrote: >> I have: >> dumpdev=3D"AUTO" >> in /etc/rc.conf and: >> ...=20 >> in the kernel and I'm still unable to obtain a crash dump. Hopefully >> there is enough info in this email for a hacker to point me in the >> right direction to debug this. > >I can't help with the panic itself, but the reason for the inability to >obtain a crash dump is mentioned in a thread I started in November: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038069.h= tml > >The explanation of the problem was documented best by Doug Barton in >this thread (over at freebsd-rc@): > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2007-November/001263.html In this thread it states: Short term fix is to disable swapping on the system long enough to get the dump, then reboot with swapping turned back on. how do I turn swapping off? I don't think I can just not mount it, because then it wouldn't exist for the dump. > >Open PR: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D118255
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