VMCORE NOT FOUND

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:33, Ashwin Chandra wrote:
> I am trying to get a vmcore to appear after a kernel panic. I have done
> EVERYTHING in the developers handbook, including adding dumpdev in the
> rc.conf and a savecore with flags -f. My savecore directory is /var/crash.
> but nothing appears in it after the kernel panic except the minfree file
> and the kernel.debug in my home directory?

Is there enough space in /var?
Does the kernel actually write the crashdump when it panics?
What does savecore print during startup after the crash?


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