From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 19:19:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FDA16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:19:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D102B43D46 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:19:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1GJJQ020144 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:19:26 +0100 Message-ID: <42139CAE.7070002@supsi.ch> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:19:10 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: no crash dump generated X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:19:30 -0000 Hi. A couple of days ago I upgrades the system and a few ports on a 5.3 box and since then I'm often getting crashes. -bash-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD jupiter.noonlights.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Feb 13 22:56:47 CET 2005 root@jupiter.noonlights.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JUPITER i386 I'd like to get a crash dump and so I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b" dumpdir="/usr/crash" -bash-2.05b# ls -ld /usr/crash/ drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Feb 16 11:17 /usr/crash/ but I'm not getting any dump! /usr/crash is always empty. ..and the machine crashes quite often: -bash-2.05b# last|grep reboot reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:04 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 19:17 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 18:40 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 17:26 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 14:07 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 12:39 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 11:30 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 10:27 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:31 reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:16 What do I miss? Do I need some kernel option? Best regards. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================