Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:40:56 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get a crash dump Message-ID: <421482C8.1020902@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <421475A8.7070003@supsi.ch> References: <421475A8.7070003@supsi.ch>
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another crash.. and in /var/log/messages I see:
Feb 17 12:20:50 jupiter savecore: no dumps found
Any hints, please?
Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hi.
>
> A couple of days ago I upgrades a few ports on
> a 5.3 box and since then I'm often getting crashes.
>
> -bash-2.05b# uname -a
> FreeBSD jupiter.noonlights.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0:
> Wed Feb 16 23:36:03 CET 2005
> root@jupiter.noonlights.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JUPITER i386
>
>
> I'd like to get a crash dump and so
> I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf
> dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"
> dumpdir="/usr/crash"
>
> -bash-2.05b# swapinfo
> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
> /dev/ad0s1b 503360 0 503360 0%
>
>
> -bash-2.05b# ls -ld /usr/crash/
> drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Feb 16 11:17 /usr/crash/
>
> the machine only has 256MB RAM and the filesystem has over
> 5 GB free,
> but I'm not getting any dump! /usr/crash/ is always empty.
>
> ..and the machine crashes quite often:
> -bash-2.05b# last|grep reboot
> reboot ~ Thu Feb 17 07:58
> reboot ~ Thu Feb 17 01:23
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 22:48
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:59
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:37
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 21:08
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:56
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:44
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:20
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 20:04
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 19:17
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 18:40
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 17:26
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 14:07
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 12:39
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 11:30
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 10:27
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:31
> reboot ~ Wed Feb 16 09:16
> reboot ~ Mon Feb 14 14:11
> reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 23:49
> reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 22:33
> reboot ~ Sun Feb 13 12:22
>
>
> What do I miss? Do I need some kernel option to get a crash
> dump?
>
> Best regards.
--
Roberto Nunnari -software engineer-
mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch
Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana
Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative
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SUPSI-DTI
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