[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosing system crash

[Tomas Bodzar]

Hah Adaptec crap.

See

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=125783114503531&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126775051500581&w=2


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Martyn Klassen
<mklassen at imaging.robarts.ca> wrote:
> I recently updated the driver and firmware on my Adaptec RAID card and the system now randomly reboots. I tried reverting to an earlier boot environment with the old drivers, but I still get random system reboots.
>
> Nothing in the log files in /var/adm and /var/log seems to indicate the source of these crashes. I tried to configure the system to produce core dumps on crash by enabling dumpadm
>
> # dumpadm -y
>      Dump content: kernel pages
>       Dump device: /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump (dedicated)
> Savecore directory: /var/crash/ernst
>  Savecore enabled: yes
>   Save compressed: on
>
> But /var/crash/ernst is empty when the system reboots.
>
> Is there something else that needs to be configured to get core dumps? What is the best way to diagnosis system crashes?
>
> I am running OI 148
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS ernst 5.11 oi_148 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> Martyn Klassen
>
>
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