Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:22:58 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting A Kernel Dump Message-ID: <4446F082.8050505@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4446D8E2.2040302@mykitchentable.net> References: <4446D8E2.2040302@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I have a 6.0 system running on a P3 550 that > is rebooting every now and then due to a > trap 12 error. I've followed the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > > for getting a crash dump but I'm not getting dumps. > Here's the relevant line from rc.conf: > > dumpdev="/dev/da1s1b" > > And it seems to be OK as dumpon has no problem > when I set this manually: > > blacksheep# dumpon -v /dev/da1s1b > kernel dumps on /dev/da1s1b > > My swap partition is 750 MB and the total system > memory is 384 MB. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? > > Thanks, > > Drew Unfortunately, no. Read this today, though: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Since I've not read the handbook section you mention, I can't say if it's duplicate info or not. But this was pretty good stuff, as Michael's stuff always seems to be.... KDK -- Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known as Wheels.
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