Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot

[Norbert Papke]

On August 20, 2009, Scott Schappell wrote:
> I cannot get the system to generate a dump, even though dumpon verified
> it's set to the swap drive but /var/crash stays empty. I have
> dumpdev=AUTO in rc.conf and dumpdir=/var/crash as well.

If you don't have it already, you may also need 

ddb_enable="YES"
savecore_enable="YES"

Cheers,

-- Norbert Papke.
   npapke at acm.org


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