From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 08:09:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E8F16A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E3643D49 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:09:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 16213856A3; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:39:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:39:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Denny White Message-ID: <20050601080952.GR35959@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050531215354.F613@dualman.cableone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1GSL5ZULXUIqbbH1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050531215354.F613@dualman.cableone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Panics and Core Dump help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:09:55 -0000 --1GSL5ZULXUIqbbH1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 1 June 2005 at 2:25:56 -0500, Denny White wrote: > > Just trying to get a heads up if I'm going about > this in the right way, if I've understood what > I've read and applied, outlined below. > I read an article at Onlamp on how to prepare > for system panics and core dumps. Article here: > > ... > > Now, in /var/log/messages, I get: > > savecore: unable to open bounds file, using 0 > savecore: no dumps found Did you get a dump? Otherwise the second message is normal. The first one is harmless, and should only occur on the first real dump. > Am I right in assuming that the system's doing exactly what it's > supposed to do? That is, checking for a dump when booting, not > finding any, reporting as much, and proceeding booting as usual? Assuming that you didn't write a dump, yes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html The virus contained in this message was not detected. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --1GSL5ZULXUIqbbH1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCnW1QIubykFB6QiMRAlZWAKCq2XuAm25uOULnSYusi8A9MjHBVACfXVF2 kUUB1Tbx1XpW+eh34f/vxHg= =Ogug -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1GSL5ZULXUIqbbH1--