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From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
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Cc: Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>
Subject: Re: core dumps being overwritten
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you're right. i found this in one of my logs:

savecore: unable to read from bounds, using 0
Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc051b930(0xc0a22340) 0.013787226 s
savecore: unable to read from bounds, using 0
savecore: reboot after panic: mutex ACPI global lock owned at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_event.c:1758
Jul 16 00:22:20 otaku savecore: reboot after panic: mutex ACPI global lock
owned at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_event.c:1758
savecore: writing core to vmcore.0
Writing crash summary to /var/crash/core.txt.0.

alex

John Baldwin schrieb am 2009-07-17:
> On Thursday 16 July 2009 4:04:17 am Alexander Best wrote:
> > exactly. `cat /var/crash/bounds` => 2.

> This can happen if you lose the 'bounds' file during a crash or if
> that file
> is corrupted in some other fashion.