On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:03:49PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> > > Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 27-Mar-01 Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> > > > > I also have a kernel crash dump and could post it here if no one can
> > > > > give me a good advice without it ;-)))
> > > >
> > > > If you haven't compiled the kernel with debugging symbols then you should do
>so..
> > >
> > > I done it but it's remote server and I have a problem to get valid
> > > crash dump -
> > > last attempt was unsuccessful - I see the only file "minfree"
> > > in /var/crash
> >
> > Have you run dumpon and/or savecore? You need to at least run dumpon
> > *before* the kernel crashes, to tell it what device to dump on; later,
> > when the machine reboots, you want to run savecore to fetch the coredump,
> > and store it into /var/crash.
> >
> > This is all best done by specifying dumpdev in rc.conf. You'll have to
> > manually run dumpon the first time, before the machine crashes; after
> > the crash, the rc scripts shall run both dumpon and savecore, because
> > the dumpdev setting in rc.conf tells them to.
>
> Thank you!
> I run dumpon now and insert it in rc.conf
>
> The only thing I can ask hosting support is press <CTRL-ALT-ESC>
> on crash and then type "panic".
>
> Is it enough to get a good kernel core?
Yes, that should be enough. Hmm.. if you have 'options DDB' in
the kernel config, the machine should fall to DDB by itself, when
a kernel panic occurs. Or does it just crash, without a panic?
If so, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Esc would be needed.
G'luck,
Peter
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