Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:07:16 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting A Kernel Dump - SOLVED! Message-ID: <44495794.5050309@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <4446F082.8050505@daleco.biz> References: <4446D8E2.2040302@mykitchentable.net> <4446F082.8050505@daleco.biz>
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On 4/19/2006 7:22 PM Kevin Kinsey said the following: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> I have a 6.0 system running on a P3 550 that >> is rebooting every now and then due to a >> trap 12 error. I've followed the steps at >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html >> >> for getting a crash dump but I'm not getting dumps. Here's the >> relevant line from rc.conf: >> >> dumpdev="/dev/da1s1b" >> >> And it seems to be OK as dumpon has no problem >> when I set this manually: >> >> blacksheep# dumpon -v /dev/da1s1b >> kernel dumps on /dev/da1s1b >> >> My swap partition is 750 MB and the total system >> memory is 384 MB. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Drew > > > > Unfortunately, no. Read this today, though: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > > Since I've not read the handbook section you mention, I can't > say if it's duplicate info or not. But this was pretty good stuff, > as Michael's stuff always seems to be.... Thanks for your reply. In going over everything again, I finally figured out I had made a dumb mistake. I have a small root partition (500 MB) and normally symlink /var to /var/usr. However in this case, I hadn't made that symlink after restoring from a disk crash about a month ago. So there was not enough room in /var/crash to create the dump. 'savecore' was keeping me from shooting myself in the foot. :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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