Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:02:29 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Subject: Re: System doesn't dump Message-ID: <201305300902.29766.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <51A5A322.1020503@bsdforen.de> References: <51A5A322.1020503@bsdforen.de>
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On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:41:38 am Dominic Fandrey wrote: > 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. Does /dev/dumpdev exist and point to your swap partition after booting? -- John Baldwin
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