Re: savecore(8) doesn't find dump

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:48:42 +0100
Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd%2008.salmi.ch@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> on a 4.99.47 i386 system, savecore(8) is unable to save a dump even
> though the dump seems to have been created successfully:
> 
>       $ shutdown -d now
>       Shutdown NOW!
>       [...]
>       syncing disks... done
>       unmounting file systems... done
>       
>       dumping to dev 0,1 offset 1141767
>       dump 1014 1013 1012 [...] 3 2 1 succeeded
>       
>       
>       rebooting...
> 
> ...but during the next boot savecore(8) doesn't find any dump.
> 
Try running 'savecore -v'; it may say what the problem is.  Possibly,
adding -f will let you get your dump.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb