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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:06:01 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap@amcc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LOR on RELENG_6, beta 5
Message-ID:  <6.2.3.4.0.20050921140229.069e6728@64.7.153.2>
In-Reply-To: <20050921175326.GA81378@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <2B3B2AA816369A4E87D7BE63EC9D2F26B55B96@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com> <20050921175326.GA81378@xor.obsecurity.org>

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At 01:53 PM 21/09/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am able to replicate this on the box without too much effort.
> > > > Unfortunately, it doesnt want to dump on my twe device for
> > > some reason
> > > > despite doing a dumpon -v /dev/twed0s1b
> > >
> > > Dumps on twe seem to be broken.  vinod, have you made any
> > > progress on this since last we spoke?
> > >
> >
> > Like I told you earlier, I tried reproducing the problem both on 7
> > -CURRENT,
> > and RELENG_6, but couldn't.  Dumping on twe seems to work just fine.
>
>And what of those of us for whom dumping does not, in fact, work fine?
Actually in my case it was the watchdog killing the machine.  From 
the debugger prompt, I can do a
call doadump
and it seems to write it out just fine

and at bootup it recovers the core as expected.

# ls -l /var/crash/vm*
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  1061322752 Sep 21 13:48 /var/crash/vmcore.37

         ---Mike 




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