From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 19:03:11 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 8E88416A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:03:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.celeritystorm.com (mail.celeritystorm.com [213.247.62.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E61A43D46 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:03:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@celeritystorm.com) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (unknown [81.84.175.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.celeritystorm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79473D74AD for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:01:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41FD2EDF.2040503@celeritystorm.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:00:47 +0000 From: - User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 5.3-STABLE not saving panics ? 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: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:03:11 -0000 Hi, I Have a server that keeps panicking when under some load, and I need to understand where the problem is. I've built a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g, DDB, DDB_UNATTENDED. I've added dumpdev="/dev/ad3s1b" to rc.conf. But still, whenever it panicks, nothing will be logged to /var/log/messages (my 5.2.1-RELEASE workstation also logs panics there) and most important nothing will be in /var/crash/ .. I can confirm it is indeed panicking because a friend brought the server from the datacenter to his home and we are testing it. I can easily make it panic by killing init, but even these will not be dumped to /var/crash/ Have I missed something obvious ? (5.3-STABLE i386)