Subject: port-cats/18026: Cats kernel won't dump to swap on panic
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/22/2002 01:31:31
>Number: 18026
>Category: port-cats
>Synopsis: Cats kernel won't dump to swap on panic
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-cats-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 21 17:32:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Richard Earnshaw
>Release: NetBSD 1.6F (2002/08/21)
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: NetBSD osprey.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk 1.6F NetBSD 1.6F (OSPREY) #44: Wed Aug 21 20:59:30 BST 2002 rearnsha@osprey.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/arch/cats/compile/OSPREY cats
Architecture: arm
Machine: cats
>Description:
After a panic, typing sync, or trying to continue, hangs the machine
without dumping a kernel to the swap partition.
>How-To-Repeat:
Make the kernel panic, type either 'sync' or 'c' machine will try to
sync disks and dump the kernel to swap, but will instead hang,
requiring a machine reset.
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: