Re: savecore(8) doesn't find dump

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

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.

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