On 30/05/2013 15:02, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:41:38 am Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> I have a number of actions that reliably panic the system, such as >> performing shutdown -p (yes I'm booting into an inconsistent file >> system every time). Both with my notebook and my workstation. >> >> However I cannot get the system to dump. >> >> dumpdir=/var/crash >> and I've tried ada0s2b, /dev/ada0s2b, label/5swap, /dev/label/5swap and AUTO >> for dumpdev to no avail. >> >> The swap partition is 16g, the machines have 8g RAM and there's plenty >> of hard disk space available for /var/crash. >> >> I'm looking for that secret, undocumented trigger, that makes the >> system dump if a panic occurs. Once upon a time dumping just worked >> if the swap partition was large enough. I miss those olden days. > > Does /dev/dumpdev exist and point to your swap partition after booting? >
# ll /dev/dumpdev lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16B 18 Aug 14:42 /dev/dumpdev@ -> /dev/label/5swap # ll /dev/label/5swap crw-rw---- 1 root operator 0x72 18 Aug 14:42 /dev/label/5swap Yes, looks like it. And it's a genuine swap partition: > swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/label/5swap 16777212 0 16777212 0% -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
