Subject: Re: Down to the final small bugs!
To: None <darykon!simmons@nwnexus.wa.com>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/21/1995 06:40:47
> O.K. Now what's with savecore. It gets called from rc. I read the man
> page on it and I still can't really figure out why it's failing. I
> get: savecore: read: Invalid argument
> 
> I tried savecore -v /var/crash and got the following:
> dumplo = -6928 (-13 * 512)
> savecore: read: Invalid argument
> 
> Well a negative number would seem to me an invalid argument too. Any ideas?

Is your machine's primary swap ([sw]d0b) is smaller than its RAM?

P.S. you cannot dump to scsi disks at all (examine sd.c)--use DDB.

I will send-pr the fix for this RSN.