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Subject: RE: savecore: Value too large to be stored in data type
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From: Tim Robbins [mailto:tjr@freebsd.org]
> 
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Mar  4 16:05:09 cdata savecore: write error on vmcore.1 
> file: Value too
> > large to
> >  be stored in data type
> > Mar  4 16:05:09 cdata savecore: WARNING: vmcore may be incomplete
> > Mar  4 16:05:09 cdata savecore: unsaved dumps found but not saved
> > 
> > I'm not sure what 'value to large...' message means in this context.
> > Can someone suggest how to get my core file?
> 
> Update src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c to revision 1.66 & recompile.
> 

Yes, that fixes it.