Only have this in the dump directory: vega# ll /var/crash total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Sep 19 00:24 minfree vega# cat /var/crash/minfree 2048 No vmcore, but haven't seen any system crash anyway. I use the system defaults: dumpdev="AUTO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present. Carlos Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>> The boot process is trying to configure the dump device before swapon >>> and it fails, but that's not the real problem I report here. >> >> >> It's not clear that it's a problem at all. dump devices don't have to >> be pre-existing swap devices. If you tell your kernel to dump on >> /dev/ar0s1b it should be fine. > > > At some point someone changed the default setting to "automatically > configure dumping" which resulted in odd warnings during the boot. I've > trimmed a few, and hope to trim the last few. Autoconfiguration of > dumps is neat and all, but lots of odd warnings for users isn't really. > It would be interesting to know if it works though -- the warnings > suggest that dumps aren't found because the dump device isn't > autoconfigured until after dumps are checked for... > > Robert N M Watson >Received on Fri Sep 30 2005 - 18:27:00 UTC
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