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From: Charlie Root <root@palm.cise.ufl.edu>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: savecore not working
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>Number:         20701
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       savecore not working
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 18 08:00:04 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Aug 21 06:31:27 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Aug 21 06:33:34 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Jim Hranicky (jfh@cise.ufl.edu)
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
University of Florida CISE Department
>Environment:

  OS ver:
        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0

  CPU info:
        CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (646.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
        Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
        Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
                 MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,XMM>
        real memory  = 268369920 (262080K bytes)

>Description:

	On booting after a kernel panic, savecore fails with the following
	error message:

  	   checking for core dump...savecore: /kernel: _dumplo not in namelist


>How-To-Repeat:

	Cause kernel panic

>Fix:

	Unknown


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To: Charlie Root <root@palm.cise.ufl.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/20701: savecore not working
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:02:50 +0300

 On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Charlie Root wrote:
 > 
 > 	On booting after a kernel panic, savecore fails with the following
 > 	error message:
 > 
 >   	   checking for core dump...savecore: /kernel: _dumplo not in namelist
 > 
 Did you accidentally strip your /kernel?
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 21 05:18:44 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Ruslan's suggestion about having stripped the kernel is much 
more likely to be the answer than the suggestions I sent 
you. 

Let us know. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20701 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 21 06:31:27 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator reports that the problem was caused by 
improper use of strip(1) on the /kernel binary. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20701 
>Unformatted:
