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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't get a kernel core dump :-(
Date: 26 Jul 1995 14:27:36 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Martin Butkus (M.Butkus@tu-bs.de) wrote:

: Have you set "options DODUMP" too? Otherwise it won't work.

i think it's obsolete (like some of the core team people said and a grep
thru /usr/src/sys proved) 

: Or maybe your swap partition is too small? The dump is as big as your RAM is.

no - it seems to be a bit more strange - i'll try it more tomorrow or so -
today i got a crash on the console ... but my problem i need the crashdump
for has something todo with xdm :-(

i'll keep you up to date - t

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