unnecessary savecore warnings
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 17 12:51:23 GMT 2005
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I noticed that in the past few months, savecore has begun complaining if
> the bounds file in /var/crash doesn't exist. Can we add it to
> /usr/src/etc/Makefile like the corresponding entry for minfree?
>
> Also, I noticed that /etc/rc.d/savecore has started complaining early in
> boot if you have dumpdev="AUTO", giving the message "kenv: unable to get
> dumpdev". Of course, it works just fine and detects the slice with
> "swap" in /etc/fstab. So the warning is spurious and should be
> silenced.
I've noticed this also, and see if on my NanoBSD Soekris box. Given that
the machine doesn't have a partition set up for dumping, and I don't want
its dumps, I'd rather it didn't complain, as that will just cause
unnecessary worry and questions.
This is similar to the devfs-at-shutdown error. An error message that is
a result of a harmless "problem" results in significant concern for
end-users, which results in more bug reports, less happy users, etc.
Robert N M Watson
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