From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 08:31:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8960416A4BF; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E98543FD7; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h84FVpFb011250; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:31:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030904113119.07f39d48@209.112.4.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@209.112.4.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:34:30 -0400 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) Subject: crash dumps to ar not supported ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:31:53 -0000 I was suggesting to someone that they enable crash dumps on their server but they have everything on an IDE raid partition. -------------------- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xbed557c5 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc027c38d stack pointer = 0x10:0xdea01ecc frame pointer = 0x10:0xdea01ef4 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 5 (syncer) interrupt mask = none trap number = 12 panic: page fault syncing disks... 8 done Uptime: 1d0h9m53s dumping to dev #ar/0x20001, offset 1279168 dump failed, reason: device doesn't support a dump routine Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort --------------------------- The error message seems to imply crash dumps are not supported on the ar device? Apart from installing a spare drive, I guess there are no other option ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike