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From: Martin Butkus <M.Butkus@tu-bs.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't get a kernel core dump :-(
Date: 25 Jul 1995 18:09:38 GMT
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graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) wrote:

>
>in /etc/rc before the savecore entry (savecore is set to YES in sysconfig) -

Ok...

>and i've also tried to compile a kernel with
>
>  config kernel root on wd0 dumps on wd0
>

Have you set "options DODUMP" too? Otherwise it won't work.

>and always the system hangs if it want's to write the coredump (the hdd
>light is on but it's silence - no disk activity) - the only way to "unhang"
>is the reset button - and after the reboot it simply says "savecore: no core
>dump" - i tried it with my own compiled kernel and with the 2.0.5
>kernel.GENERIC
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it's disabled there.

Or maybe your swap partition is too small? The dump is as big as your RAM is.

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