Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:41:15 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crashdumps not working Message-ID: <200412081241.19968.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041208111915.98791C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041208111915.98791C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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--nextPart1198374.RPUJOBUTbU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 12:20, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers > > a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be > > causing this? > > If you drop to the debugger by using the debug.kdb.enter sysctl, and do > "call doadump", followed by a reset, does a dump get generated > successfully? I don't have kdb enabled in my kernel configuration at all... > I.e., are they completely broken on your system, or is this=20 > somehow a property of the particular hang you're seeing. See my other mail, a different (non-watchdog) panic didn't trigger a dump=20 either. I even had the panic message in dmesg: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled =46atal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address =3D 0x14c fault code =3D supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer =3D 0x8:0xc0521397 stack pointer =3D 0x10:0xe9794b84 frame pointer =3D 0x10:0xe9794b90 code segment =3D base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b =3D DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags =3D resume, IOPL =3D 0 current process =3D 1281 (beep-media-player) trap number =3D 12 panic: page fault Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0= 0=20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0= 0=20 0 (I enabled kern.sync_on_panic only very recently for my experimenting with= =20 watchdog, dumping didn't work without it either). =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1198374.RPUJOBUTbU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBtuhfXhc68WspdLARAtCSAKCVobmKv2hB1fy2KC3s+LQ5Tt8RuwCfeOOK /WDizgIe9MHzpFnu7hU9tP4= =UmTw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1198374.RPUJOBUTbU--
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