finally a crash dump on 5.3

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-01-06 09:44, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 1/6/2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >On 2005-01-06 08:56, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
> >> I was up for 2wks and today saw this:
> >>
> >> Fatal trap 12 - page fault while in kernel mode
> >> CPUID 0 APIC ID 0
> >> Fault write address = 0x418ad66c
> >> Fault code = supervisor write, page not present
> >>
> >> What do I do with this information now that I finally have it ?
> >
> > During the next boot, savecore should save a crash dump in
> > /var/crash (assuming one was successfully saved in swap when the
> > crash happened).
> >
> > Look at the Developers Handbook for details about obtaining a stack
> > trace of the kernel at the moment of the crash:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html
>
> Well so much for that idea :(
>
> 9:43:24am /var/crash> ls -al
> total 6
> drwxr-x---   2 root  wheel  512 Dec 29 18:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel  512 Jan  6 09:37 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    5 Nov  4 19:27 minfree

Then you are still seeing crashes without a dump :-(

- Giorgos