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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:52:52 -0400
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:56:41PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:47:01 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 6 October 2011 07:50, Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, it crashed this evening.. Got a snapshot of it with my wife's digital
> > > camera..
> > > 
> > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/kernelcrash.jpg/
> > > 
> > > There is a small "flash dot" as the camera's flash went off, but 99% of
> > > it is readable. (thought I'd turned off the flash).
> > > 
> > > Also, as a side note, the machine has a large enough swapfile for a crash
> > > dump.. and it didnt reboot reboot on it's own even though it says it
> > > will..
> > 
> > So it didn't crashdump?
> > 
> > Unless data[] is completely invalid (eg NULL), I can't see how that
> > function would panic..
> > 
> > 
> > Adrian
> No.. it claimed there was no valid dump device configured..

Do you have a /dev/dumpdev symbolic link pointing to a swap partition?
If not, the dump device may not have been configured.

Also, apologies if you said this earlier, but which version of FreeBSD
are you running?

Gary