From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 19:01:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA03277 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA03272 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id TAA14760 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:01:37 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vd62r-000QaYC; Thu, 26 Dec 96 03:59 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.4/8.6.12) id DAA25916; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:42:51 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199612260242.DAA25916@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: crash on xinit In-Reply-To: from Curt Finch at "Dec 14, 96 02:48:38 pm" To: curt@tkg.com (Curt Finch) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:42:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Curt Finch writes: > > i have a situation where xinit crashes my machine everytime. > i even tried switching cards. > > how can i diagnose the problem? How do I get the dump. Create a directory /var/crash, and ensure that you have something like this in your /etc/sysconfig: # Set to the name of the device for kernel crashdumps, or `off' to # disable any statically configured dumpdev, or NO for no change. # The device should normally be one of the swap devices specified # in /etc/fstab. dumpdev=/dev/sd0b # Set to YES if you want kernel crashdumps to be saved for debugging savecore=YES Greg