From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 22:42:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23373 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23363 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA22817; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:11:21 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA00731; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:11:14 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981120171114.I427@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:11:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jm7996@devrycols.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash dump. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from James A. Mutter on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:44:27PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 19 November 1998 at 23:44:27 -0500, James A. Mutter wrote: > > Could someone please explain the process behind getting the kernel to > generate a crash dump, and then how to analyze that dump? I've been over > the dumpon manpage and I have to admit it wasn't much help. Take a look at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/handbook302.html. You'll also find some additional information in http://www.lemis.com/vinum_debugging.html, though this isn't intended to be general-purpose. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message