vinum, dump and amanda

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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Incorrect quoting

On Monday, 26 May 2003 at 10:41:09 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org>
>>> I hoped to get some cores, but every time the box tells me:
>>>     dumping 96M (being the memory size)
>>>     its reseting the ata stuff
>>> and then hangs.....
>>> pressing keys gives me some [ctrl-C....], ....
>>
>> It would be nice to have more accurate information here.  If you can't
>> get a dump (how are you trying?), try getting a backtrace from ddb.
>> Just enter 't' and write down what it outputs (or log it if you're
>> running a serial console).
>
> I'm trying to get a dump, by telling it to panic once it gets into
> the debugger.  I'll try and hook two servers together, and get that
> working...
>
>>> but after a while it just reboots.
>>> Should it be displaying info while dumping the kernel and stuff???
>>
>> Yes, it should count down from 96 in steps of 16.
>
> That's what I expected it to do, but it doesn't. I've set dumpon to
> dump the kernel to the swap of the boot IDE disk. It's not really a
> fast disk, but should be able to write 16meg per minute???

No, probably the crash has made it impossible to write to disk at all.
Unfortunately, that happens more often than it should.  Don't bother
trying again.  Note also the other information I asked you for.

Greg
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