Subject: Re: savecore(8) doesn't find dump
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2008.salmi.ch>
List: current-users
Date: 01/07/2008 09:16:17
Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2008-01-03 16:48:42 +0100):
> 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 has been fixed by jld's recent commit to lib/libkvm/kvm_i386.c.
Thanks!
Regards, Jukka
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