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