[OpenIndiana-discuss] get no system dumps: skipping system dump - no dump device configured

Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabowski at kit.edu
Fri Aug 11 10:31:00 UTC 2017


On 11/08/2017 12:03, Carsten Grzemba wrote:
> I try to investigate boot hangs with latest hipster. Unfortunately "send break" is not possible on X4200 and dump after NMI is not working, however dumpadm shows:
>
> $ sudo dumpadm
> Password:
>  Dump content: all pages
>  Dump device: /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump (dedicated)
> Savecore directory: /var/crash/gnom
>  Savecore enabled: yes
>  Save compressed: on
>
> and:
> $ zfs list rpool/dump
> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
> rpool/dump 8.00G 310G 8.00G -
>
>
> Any ideas why system after NMI means dump devices is not configured
>

You need to set this in /etc/system and reboot:

* disable multithread dump (hangs)
set dump_plat_mincpu=0
set dump_bzip2_level=1
* enable panic on NMI
set pcplusmp:apic_panic_on_nmi=1

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