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From: "Ashwin Chandra" <ashcs@ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: VMCORE NOT FOUND
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I actually changed dumpdir to /usr/crash since /var did not have enough 
space to accomodate 512 MB.  But /usr has 60gigs. When the kernel panics it 
just crashes, I never get a message saying "dumping...". Savecore upon 
reboot says no dumps found. So i believe the problem is that the system is 
just crashing before it has a chance to dump? I've tried doing a DDB 
backtrace upon a panic. And at the prompt, when i type in panic, the system 
just spits out the uptime minutes, and then dies...no info that something 
was dumped.

Ash

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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Cc: "Ashwin Chandra" <ashcs@ucla.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: VMCORE NOT FOUND


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?