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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:33:13 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_6 kernel panic + savecore(8) problem
Message-ID:  <20071126023313.GA2376@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071126022136.GA1564@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <20071107191611.GA1400@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20071107232328.GA1678@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20071126022136.GA1564@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:21:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> I believe the problem is that /etc/rc.d/swap1 is being run before
> savecore.  I'm guessing that swapon(8) actually destroys/clobbers the
> existing saved kernel panic/core data, thus one will never get a
> coredump in /var/crash.  I believe some re-organisation of rcorder(8)
> arguments in the files is in order, but I don't know what should
> be changed to what.
> 
> I'll submit a PR for the above, because IMHO that's a serious one.

PR 118255 has been opened for this matter.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118255

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
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