Subject: Re: savecore(8) doesn't find dump
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 01/03/2008 18:29:55
On Thu Jan 03 2008 at 16:48:42 +0100, Jukka Salmi 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.

This seems to be the same problem as in the "unable to dump kernel core"
thread here/tech-kern last November.  I've been meaning to file a PR,
but I've never had my system really -current since to verify the problem
still exists.

Please check out the mentioned thread and file a PR.

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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