From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 12:14:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2A11065672 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:14:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE398FC36 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:14:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=p4GU8qmdqNFFWTTrcOFg2+R7DfisbdAiR8veDjSAGzgIi3ASf6qUfBavRcMcotC/; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [24.144.77.185] (helo=joker.seclark.com) by elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KfvKx-0001JZ-MM for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <48D0EBCE.9030503@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:46 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79e15d7c93253b5a0f80d91afb9b1d65fe350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.144.77.185 Subject: 6.3 reboot -d doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:14:42 -0000 Hello List, I am trying to get a crash dump but am unable to with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 /etc/defaults/rc.conf dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present. Z2873# sysctl -a |grep physmem hw.physmem: 259481600 Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free Z2873# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s1b kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b reboot -d ... dumping 255M 2 chunks Then nothing - the system doesn't reboot and I have to hard reset it. When it comes back up there is no crash file in /var/crash from /var/log/messages: Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: ad0: 28615MB at ata0-master UDMA66 Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 savecore: no dumps found Is this broken? Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)