Panic on 4.10 (Not sure of Cause)

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Jun 22 23:06:18 GMT 2004


On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Kyle Mott wrote:

> > Sadly, your crashdump appears to be corrupted and isn't useful.
>
>
> What would (could?) cause a corruption like this? Is there something I
> did wrong?

Sometimes you can get corruption if your system starts using swap before
savecore comes along and rescues the crashdump. Sometimes the disk borks
and drops the writes on the floor during the crashdump.  There's a few
other possibilities. :(

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