From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 11:41:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9237D16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9B743D45 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:41:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1HBfC024573; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:41:12 +0100 Message-ID: <421482C8.1020902@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:40:56 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roberto Nunnari References: <421475A8.7070003@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <421475A8.7070003@supsi.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get a crash dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:41:15 -0000 another crash.. and in /var/log/messages I see: Feb 17 12:20:50 jupiter savecore: no dumps found Any hints, please? Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hi. > > A couple of days ago I upgrades a few ports on > a 5.3 box and since then I'm often getting crashes. > > -bash-2.05b# uname -a > FreeBSD jupiter.noonlights.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: > Wed Feb 16 23:36:03 CET 2005 > root@jupiter.noonlights.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JUPITER i386 > > > I'd like to get a crash dump and so > I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b" > dumpdir="/usr/crash" > > -bash-2.05b# swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity > /dev/ad0s1b 503360 0 503360 0% > > > -bash-2.05b# ls -ld /usr/crash/ > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Feb 16 11:17 /usr/crash/ > > the machine only has 256MB RAM and the filesystem has over > 5 GB free, > but I'm not getting any dump! /usr/crash/ is always empty. > > ..and the machine crashes quite often: > -bash-2.05b# last|grep reboot > reboot ~ Thu Feb 17 07:58 > reboot ~ Thu Feb 17 01:23 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 22:48 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:59 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:37 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:08 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:56 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:44 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:20 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:04 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 19:17 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 18:40 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 17:26 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 14:07 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 12:39 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 11:30 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 10:27 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:31 > reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:16 > reboot ~ Mon Feb 14 14:11 > reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 23:49 > reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 22:33 > reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 12:22 > > > What do I miss? Do I need some kernel option to get a crash > dump? > > Best regards. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================