On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:48:42 +0100
Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2008.salmi.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> on a 4.99.47 i386 system, savecore(8) is unable to save a dump even
> though the dump seems to have been created successfully:
> 
> 	$ shutdown -d now
> 	Shutdown NOW!
> 	[...]
> 	syncing disks... done
> 	unmounting file systems... done
> 	
> 	dumping to dev 0,1 offset 1141767
> 	dump 1014 1013 1012 [...] 3 2 1 succeeded
> 	
> 	
> 	rebooting...
> 
> ...but during the next boot savecore(8) doesn't find any dump.
> 
Try running 'savecore -v'; it may say what the problem is.  Possibly,
adding -f will let you get your dump.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb