Steven M. Bellovin --> current-users (2008-01-03 11:15:22 -0500): > 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. $ savecore -n $ echo $? 1 $ savecore -v /a/crash dumplo = 584584704 (1141767 * 512) savecore: kvm_read: invalid translation (invalid PTE) $ savecore -vf /a/crash dumplo = 584584704 (1141767 * 512) savecore: kvm_read: invalid translation (invalid PTE) savecore: warning: /netbsd version mismatch: NetBSD 4.99.48 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jan 3 22:49:59 CET 2008 build%moray.salmi.ch@localhost:/b/build/nbsd/c/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC and 7 savecore: kvm_read: invalid translation (invalid PTE) savecore: kvm_read: invalid translation (invalid PTE) savecore: reboot savecore: kvm_read: invalid translation (invalid PTE) (and _time_second is not defined also) savecore: writing core to /a/crash/netbsd.4.core savecore: writing kernel to /a/crash/netbsd.4 savecore: /dev/wd0b: kvm_clear_dump: invalid translation (invalid PTE) This seems to be the same problem Antti mentioned. I'll file a PR. Regards, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~