From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 02:33:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3890116A41A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D4B13C4DB for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 73AAA1CC07B; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:33:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:33:13 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071126023313.GA2376@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20071107191611.GA1400@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20071107232328.GA1678@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20071126022136.GA1564@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071126022136.GA1564@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: RELENG_6 kernel panic + savecore(8) problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:33:20 -0000 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:21:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I believe the problem is that /etc/rc.d/swap1 is being run before > savecore. I'm guessing that swapon(8) actually destroys/clobbers the > existing saved kernel panic/core data, thus one will never get a > coredump in /var/crash. I believe some re-organisation of rcorder(8) > arguments in the files is in order, but I don't know what should > be changed to what. > > I'll submit a PR for the above, because IMHO that's a serious one. PR 118255 has been opened for this matter. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118255 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |