Subject: RE: Problems getting a core dump.
To: 'Manuel Bouyer' <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Randy Terbush <randy@terbush.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/13/2002 10:19:48
I believe that I have worked this out, discovering that savecore does
not like the date of the core file vs. the current date in nvram which I
cannot seem to successfully set and retain on this X1. I've added a '-f'
flag to $savecore_flags and will try that when I am not remote to the
machine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr] 
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: Randy Terbush
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problems getting a core dump.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:23:59PM -0600, Randy Terbush wrote:
> > 
> > I've been working on a very repeatable kernel panic that I 
> cannot seem 
> > to actually get a core deposited to /var/crash. I've forced 
> the dump 
> > in ddb before issuing a reboot. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> What does savecore tell at boot ?
> You should find it in /var/log/messages
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
> Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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>