From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 06:47:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061E052F for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 06:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.server1.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [82.193.243.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1036EB0 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 06:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (HSI-KBW-134-3-231-194.hsi14.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de [134.3.231.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.server1.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B1B2861C5 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 08:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51A5A322.1020503@bsdforen.de> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:41:38 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: System doesn't dump X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 06:47:28 -0000 I have a number of actions that reliably panic the system, such as performing shutdown -p (yes I'm booting into an inconsistent file system every time). Both with my notebook and my workstation. However I cannot get the system to dump. dumpdir=/var/crash and I've tried ada0s2b, /dev/ada0s2b, label/5swap, /dev/label/5swap and AUTO for dumpdev to no avail. The swap partition is 16g, the machines have 8g RAM and there's plenty of hard disk space available for /var/crash. I'm looking for that secret, undocumented trigger, that makes the system dump if a panic occurs. Once upon a time dumping just worked if the swap partition was large enough. I miss those olden days. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?