From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 13:39:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08000 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07995 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA26004; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:43:25 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:43:25 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Matthew Dillon cc: Steve Kargl , Brian Feldman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash dump howto? In-Reply-To: <199812021728.JAA17722@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I can not get the system to produce a crash dump. > : > :So, the question remains how does one force a dump? > : > :-- > :Steve > > This is what we do: [snip] ...which is of course true and works most of the time, BUT not always. I will always remind you of remote GDB, because I experienced it myself how good this feature is. I was in situation where I couldn't produce crash dump no matter what I did (and I did everything according to the rules). The remote GDB was the only option left, and I regretted I discovered it so late... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message