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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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