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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:48:46 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>
Cc:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need advice (server continue dies)
Message-ID:  <20010327154846.A2374@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net>; from dms@wplus.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM %2B0400
References:  <XFMail.010327190918.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net>

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > 
> > On 27-Mar-01 Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> > >  I also have a kernel crash dump and could post it here if no one can
> > >  give me a good advice without it ;-)))
> > 
> > If you haven't compiled the kernel with debugging symbols then you should do so..
> 
> I done it  but it's remote server and I have a problem to get valid
> crash dump -
> last attempt was unsuccessful - I see the only file "minfree" 
> in /var/crash

Have you run dumpon and/or savecore?  You need to at least run dumpon
*before* the kernel crashes, to tell it what device to dump on; later,
when the machine reboots, you want to run savecore to fetch the coredump,
and store it into /var/crash.

This is all best done by specifying dumpdev in rc.conf.  You'll have to
manually run dumpon the first time, before the machine crashes; after
the crash, the rc scripts shall run both dumpon and savecore, because
the dumpdev setting in rc.conf tells them to.

G'luck,
Peter

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