Re: Cannot obtain kernel dump in /var/crash

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:33PM +0200, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
/etc/rc.d/dumpon creates symbolic link /dev/dumpdev. It's present in
my /dev directory. I think a problem is somewhere deeply, probably
with savecore(8). When a panic occurs I see in console process of
dumping (size of RAM, number of pages, dump device etc.) and it's
completely normal.

Anything shown on the actual console? There's some error conditions
which emit messages via syslog() only (see lines ~278-286 of
src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c).

Also, any chance of output from savecore -f -vv? There's some extra
debugging info which might come in handy (lines ~288 of
src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c).

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