Serge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Little problem, and strange (Sol10x86 6/06 on a Pentium 4 RAM 512) : now at
> most shutdowns by init 5, the system becomes as well down, but instead to
> make the power off, it reboots after a beautiful memory dump. After that, i
> find the dump files in /var/crash/my_machine as normal. And this dump +
> reboot, it can make its two times, i.e. after a new command "init 5", after
> that it makes really the power off without crash dump.
>
> With init 0, it becomes normally down, and i can switch the power manually
> off.
>
> During the dump, i readed something about PCI, but the whole operation is
> relatively fast.
>
> This issue can happen if before i greatly used the memory with any graphical
> app, but not necessary.
>
> The only PCI device i recently changed is the videocard, my new is a GeForce
> 6600, but it seems since a month properly installed and working.
>
> That all isn't a very big problem, but have anyone similar encourred ?
>
You can avoid this by disabling "savecore". Just run "dumpadm -n".
root at aeon ~$ dumpadm -n
Dump content: kernel pages
Dump device: /dev/dsk/c3d0s1 (swap)
Savecore directory: /var/crash/aeon
Savecore enabled: no
benr.
