From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 11:48:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD1716A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:48:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2DD43D1F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:48:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1CBmkZX056244; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:18:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:18:21 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <001901c510e1$aecc7c90$58e243a4@ash> In-Reply-To: <001901c510e1$aecc7c90$58e243a4@ash> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1570819.HbH8RUTNCs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502122218.42458.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Ashwin Chandra Subject: Re: VMCORE NOT FOUND X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:48:51 -0000 --nextPart1570819.HbH8RUTNCs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:33, Ashwin Chandra wrote: > I am trying to get a vmcore to appear after a kernel panic. I have done > EVERYTHING in the developers handbook, including adding dumpdev in the > rc.conf and a savecore with flags -f. My savecore directory is /var/crash. > but nothing appears in it after the kernel panic except the minfree file > and the kernel.debug in my home directory? Is there enough space in /var? Does the kernel actually write the crashdump when it panics? What does savecore print during startup after the crash? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1570819.HbH8RUTNCs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCDe0a5ZPcIHs/zowRAsneAJ0WY9crnc2iBwaTZi077RqZ4w6TTQCeMoh3 fm2j/EwfMYp+E16gFH3Xsto= =U3/O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1570819.HbH8RUTNCs--