From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 27 4:50:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87E1537B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 04:50:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 2789 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Mar 2001 12:48:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:48:46 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dmitry Samersoff Cc: Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice (server continue dies) Message-ID: <20010327154846.A2374@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Samersoff , Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net>; from dms@wplus.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > On 27-Mar-01 Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > > I also have a kernel crash dump and could post it here if no one can > > > give me a good advice without it ;-))) > > > > If you haven't compiled the kernel with debugging symbols then you should do so.. > > I done it but it's remote server and I have a problem to get valid > crash dump - > last attempt was unsuccessful - I see the only file "minfree" > in /var/crash Have you run dumpon and/or savecore? You need to at least run dumpon *before* the kernel crashes, to tell it what device to dump on; later, when the machine reboots, you want to run savecore to fetch the coredump, and store it into /var/crash. This is all best done by specifying dumpdev in rc.conf. You'll have to manually run dumpon the first time, before the machine crashes; after the crash, the rc scripts shall run both dumpon and savecore, because the dumpdev setting in rc.conf tells them to. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence no verb. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message