Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 20:03:13 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: jgreco@mei.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with crash dumps not dumping Message-ID: <199512221903.UAA01136@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <199512211553.JAA05169@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Dec 21, 95 09:53:04 am
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hasn't Joe Greco said ? ... > > I've been trying to catch a useful crash dump under 2.1.0R on my news > server. John Dyson had suggested that it would be helpful to see a crash > dump in order to debug some VM/mmap issues (? etc) or something or other, I > don't quite remember exactly what since it's been a few weeks. > > Anyways. I enabled the crash dump stuff, and when the machine panics with a > "panic: free vnode isn't" error, it appears to start the dump but then locks > with "dumping... XXXX" where XXXX is some fairly large number. The root > drive light and controller activity light are both on (NCR-810). I've seen > this happen several times now. I believe it worked correctly before the > dumps were enabled. > i have the same problem (last tested using 2.0.5 and a 2.1-SNAP) with ide - the dump works if i'm in text mode but not if i'm in X (it's a winner 2000 pci card) using the XF86_S3 server but it also works if i use the XF86_VGA16 server ??? - in the S3 case it simply hangs there for ever with the hd light on (IDE) t _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________
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