Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:28:25 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Shikoff <minotaur@crete.org.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot obtain kernel dump in /var/crash Message-ID: <20070222162824.GA24305@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070222141333.GA60026@crete.org.ua> References: <20070222115644.GA55416@crete.org.ua> <20070222132224.GA14615@icarus.home.lan> <20070222141333.GA60026@crete.org.ua>
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:33PM +0200, Alexander Shikoff wrote: > /etc/rc.d/dumpon creates symbolic link /dev/dumpdev. It's present in > my /dev directory. I think a problem is somewhere deeply, probably > with savecore(8). When a panic occurs I see in console process of > dumping (size of RAM, number of pages, dump device etc.) and it's > completely normal. Anything shown on the actual console? There's some error conditions which emit messages via syslog() only (see lines ~278-286 of src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c). Also, any chance of output from savecore -f -vv? There's some extra debugging info which might come in handy (lines ~288 of src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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