On Wednesday, 8 December 2004 at 11:20:34 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >> I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers >> a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be >> causing this? > > If you drop to the debugger by using the debug.kdb.enter sysctl, and > do "call doadump", followed by a reset, does a dump get generated > successfully? I.e., are they completely broken on your system, or > is this somehow a property of the particular hang you're seeing. > (Do the above with caution and in a situation where you don't mind > fscking, needless to say).
FWIW, I've found that the only way to dump a -CURRENT system in the last six months or so has been to 'call doadump'. There are a number of other problems, including getting gdb over firewire to work at all, but I won't find time to look at them for the next few weeks. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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