On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:33, Ashwin Chandra wrote: > I am trying to get a vmcore to appear after a kernel panic. I have done > EVERYTHING in the developers handbook, including adding dumpdev in the > rc.conf and a savecore with flags -f. My savecore directory is /var/crash. > but nothing appears in it after the kernel panic except the minfree file > and the kernel.debug in my home directory?
Is there enough space in /var? Does the kernel actually write the crashdump when it panics? What does savecore print during startup after the crash? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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