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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Kyle Mott <kyle@xraided.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic on 4.10 (Not sure of Cause)
Message-ID:  <20040622160531.Y79584@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <1087674680.10738.1.camel@architect.klmhosting.net>
References:  <40D233A7.6080002@xraided.net> <20040619114158.X48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> <1087674680.10738.1.camel@architect.klmhosting.net>

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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Kyle Mott wrote:

> > Sadly, your crashdump appears to be corrupted and isn't useful.
>
>
> What would (could?) cause a corruption like this? Is there something I
> did wrong?

Sometimes you can get corruption if your system starts using swap before
savecore comes along and rescues the crashdump. Sometimes the disk borks
and drops the writes on the floor during the crashdump.  There's a few
other possibilities. :(

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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