Subject: Re: savecore -c crashes kernel (-current on i386)
To: None <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Markus W Kilbinger <mk@kilbi.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/08/2007 08:53:16
> (2007-10-08 05:00 UTC)
> Some recent change is causing my system to crash with "savecore -c",
> however during the OS coredump it's failing (and rebooting).
> 
> >From DDB, it gives something like:
> 
> uvm_fault  in  savecore:
> 
> specificdata_getspecific()  + 0x17
> mount_getspecific()   + 0x26
> fscow_run
> spec_strategy

I see a similar crashes on my cobalt qube2 with a recent 4.99.32
-current kernel when the machine/kernel starts swapping. My most
recent 4.99.31 kernels seems to fine (and are capable of swapping).

So, maybe it's related to the 4.99.31 -> 4.99.32 changes...

Markus.