From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 3 23:10:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2552A37BEBA for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 23:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbnaidu@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA12172; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:39:41 +0530 (IST) Received: from hpd14.sasi.com ([10.0.16.14]) by sasi.com; Thu, 04 May 2000 11:39:40 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (gbnaidu@localhost) by hpd14.sasi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA04581; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:51:01 +0530 (IST) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:51:01 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" To: jkb@ethereal.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how do I save crash dumps... (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, 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? Please let me know soon regards --gb ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:54:46 +0530 (IST) From: G.B.Naidu To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.ORG Subject: how do I save crash dumps... Hi, While booting on certain kernel, my system panics. So I enabled crash dumps. I went through the mailing list archives and did as follows to enable saving crash dumps: In /etc/rc.conf file, I have added 2 lines like these: dumpdev="/dev/wd0s1b" savecore=YES 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 Am I missing something here? At panic, it dumped successfully. But why it says no core dump found? Can somebody please explain this. thanks for the help --gb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message