No dump produced [Re: [Mkdump-devel] Re: Mkdump-devel digest, Vol 1 #15 - 1 msg]

[Jan K. <la...@va...>]

Hi,

> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:14:01 +0200
> > skunk <sk...@le...> wrote:
...
> > > # ./minik_dump_i386 /dev/sda6 dump
> > > 
> > > but no "dump" file was created...

Do you still have the partition intact (with the expected crash dump)?

Some quick check - there should be a header "MINIK_DUMP":

$ head -qc10 /dev/sda6;echo
MINIK_DUMP
$ _

Is this problem reproducible?

If you got the header id above:
	Can you upload it somewhere for me offlist?
	If it is too big, upload just its first part a bit larger than your
	physical memory (such as 512MB):
		head -qc 520m /dev/sda6|bzip2 >/tmp/send-me.mkd.bz2

If you did not get the header id above and the problem is reproducible:
	What are the last messages during the attempted crash dump?
	The messages can be caught by one of:
		null-modem serial console, ethernet console, VMware, QEMU
	in this order of preference.


Thanks,
Lace