From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 17:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.kconline.com (ns.kconline.com [207.51.167.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5458114EA8 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghormann@ns.kconline.com) Received: from localhost (ghormann@localhost) by ns.kconline.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06903 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:45:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:45:54 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Hormann To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Errors from savecore/kvm_mkdb (one more try) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Didn't get any responses the first time. ------ I have a 3.1R "play" box at home that panics about once a week. I decided to try and save a dump file, so I followed directions in Chapter 22 of the Handbook. (After 5 years of owning and working on a FreeBSD servers, I have *never* needed a dump file before. Gota love stability.) Specificly, I used "config -g", set dumpdev="/dev/wd1s1b" in rc.conf, compiled the kernel, saved a copy as /kernel.debug, stripped it with "strip -g kernel" then did a "make install." On boot, 2 error messages appeared which bothered me. Couldn't find an info in handbook, man pages, or mail archives. These anything to be worried about? savecore /kernel _dumpdev not in namelist ... kvmm_mkdb: /kernel stripped inappropriate file type or format Also top didn't work complaining that nlist wasn't defined. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message