Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:18:20 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: - <user@celeritystorm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE not saving panics ? Message-ID: <20050130211820.GA14064@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41FD2EDF.2040503@celeritystorm.com> References: <41FD2EDF.2040503@celeritystorm.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0000, - wrote: > Hi, > > I Have a server that keeps panicking when under some load, and I need to > understand where the problem is. I've built a kernel with makeoptions > DEBUG=-g, DDB, DDB_UNATTENDED. I've added dumpdev="/dev/ad3s1b" to > rc.conf. But still, whenever it panicks, nothing will be logged to > /var/log/messages (my 5.2.1-RELEASE workstation also logs panics there) > and most important nothing will be in /var/crash/ .. > > I can confirm it is indeed panicking because a friend brought the server > from the datacenter to his home and we are testing it. I can easily make > it panic by killing init, but even these will not be dumped to /var/crash/ > > Have I missed something obvious ? Is savecore being run at boot time? What is displayed on the console when the system panics? Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/U8bWry0BWjoQKURAqfvAJoC1uzwykkGu7iOdo4XlpXvqg6AYwCgmwkJ KIjS2l4Yca42sfNYaU0Z830= =JljN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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