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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!wsu-cs!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!news From: Martin Butkus <M.Butkus@tu-bs.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can't get a kernel core dump :-( Date: 25 Jul 1995 18:09:38 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3v3c12$231@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <3v03cf$3q6@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:3v03cf$3q6@fu-berlin.de graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) wrote: > >in /etc/rc before the savecore entry (savecore is set to YES in sysconfig) - Ok... >and i've also tried to compile a kernel with > > config kernel root on wd0 dumps on wd0 > Have you set "options DODUMP" too? Otherwise it won't work. >and always the system hangs if it want's to write the coredump (the hdd >light is on but it's silence - no disk activity) - the only way to "unhang" >is the reset button - and after the reboot it simply says "savecore: no core >dump" - i tried it with my own compiled kernel and with the 2.0.5 >kernel.GENERIC ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ it's disabled there. Or maybe your swap partition is too small? The dump is as big as your RAM is. -- Martin Butkus >>> Live long and prosper. <<< Phone/Fax: +49.5331.298710 Am Stadtwege 10, 38304 Wolfenbuettel, Germany