From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 11:18:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBD01065670 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:18:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@danielbond.org) Received: from mail.nsn.no (mailtwo.nsn.no [62.89.38.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27E268FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@danielbond.org) Received: (qmail 26591 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jan 2009 11:18:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.3.90?) (85.95.44.187) by mail.nsn.no with SMTP; 9 Jan 2009 11:18:56 -0000 Message-Id: <470C1D05-FD7B-4216-8598-36B6D886987B@danielbond.org> From: Daniel Bond To: Omer Faruk Sen In-Reply-To: <75a268720901080805t3b85fa2bgf9b78abc1fb9a5c4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:18:56 +0100 References: <75a268720901080805t3b85fa2bgf9b78abc1fb9a5c4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel dump with 7.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:18:59 -0000 Hi, I'm assuming you configured a a dump-device in rc.conf, but just in case, here are the options: db ~> grep dump /etc/defaults/rc.conf [p8@gonzales] dumpdev="AUTO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present. using SWAP as the dumpdevice is the recommended way, as you sorta pointed out. More information can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > I am having kernel dumps with FreeBSD 7.1 > > panic: semexit - semid not allocated > cpuid = 1 > Uptime : 8m22s > Cannot dump. No dump device defined > Sleeping thread (tid 100129, pid 1479) owns a non-sleepable lock > > > I know it is not clear and there were no swap space configured on this > server (which I will re-install with swap space) but can someone > enlighten me about this since I think this bug was also in FreeBSD 6.2 > and fixed in FreeBSD 6.3 > > Regards. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "