From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 10:19:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F2414D27 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 118oPM-00015P-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:24 +0100 (envelope-from ben@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 118oPN-0000lL-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:25 +0100 (envelope-from ben@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:25 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: "3.2-RELEASE #0" crashed Message-ID: <19990726181925.A2529@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000b01bed719$10eeeb00$88291fac@wipro.tcpn.com> <19990726155307.U51019@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990726155307.U51019@freebie.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > You can't in this point. You need to enable dumping. Set dumpdev > in /etc/rc.conf to the name of a swap partition which is at least the > size of physical memory. For example, > > dumpdev=/dev/wd0b > > This will cause the system to write the dump when it crashes. Or at least, it should do. My system hasn't been able to dump core on any of its recent panics, which makes debugging rather hard (though I'm currently suspecting a faulty CPU -- it's crashing more since I replaced the last one, which died). Although all the panics have been in the same place -- various parts of the FFS code. Is some part of my setup wrong? ben@scientia:~$ grep dumpdev /etc/rc.conf dumpdev="/dev/wd2s4b" ben@scientia:~$ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd2s4b 160650 0 160522 0% Interleaved ben@scientia:~$ It always tries to dump core, but fails with some error which I don't recall (I normally just write down the panic message and any other info like "fs = /usr".) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message