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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:30:39 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <040d01c173b6$1738e010$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org> <01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011122200153.GB498@hades.hell.gr>

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Thanks.  Looks like no dump was saved in my mystery case.  I guess it will
remain a mystery.  As long as it doesn't happen again, I don't care.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>
To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 21:01
Subject: Re: home pc use


> [ Adding to my previous reply. ]
>
> On 2001-11-21 03:27:55, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > > All traps in kernel mode go through a procedure
> > > that does a core dump before rebooting the
> > > machine.
> >
> > Maybe I missed the dump.  Where does it go by default?  I looked in what
seemed
> > like likely places, like / and /tmp and what-not, but I didn't see anything
that
> > ended in .core.
>
> If the kernel panics, and saves a dump in the swap area, you will see
> messages like these during the next boot:
>
>     dumpon: crash dumps to /dev/ad0s3b (116, 262145)
>     Checking for core dump:
>     savecore: reboot after panic: bremfree: bp 0xc2140484 not locked
>     savecore: system went down at Mon Nov 19 13:58:31 2001
>
> Then in /var/crash you will find the dump files, named kernel.N and
> vmcore.N, where `N' is a number.
>
> -giorgos
>
>


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