freebsd stable - Sep 2008 - 6.3 reboot -d doesn't work

Hello List,

I am trying to get a crash dump but am unable to with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2

/etc/defaults/rc.conf
dumpdir="/var/crash"    # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored
savecore_flags=""       # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and
present.

Z2873# sysctl -a |grep physmem
hw.physmem: 259481600
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
Z2873# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s1b
kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b

reboot -d
...
dumping 255M 2 chunks


Then nothing - the system doesn't reboot and I have to hard reset it.
When it comes back up there is no crash file in /var/crash

from /var/log/messages:
Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: ad0: 28615MB <IBM DJSA-230 JS6OAB0A> at 
ata0-master UDMA66
Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 savecore: no dumps found


Is this broken?

Thanks,
Steve
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:36:46AM -0400, Stephen Clark
wrote:
> I am trying to get a crash dump but am unable to with FreeBSD
6.3-RELEASE-p2
>
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> dumpdir="/var/crash"    # Directory where crash dumps are to be
stored
> savecore_flags=""       # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and
present.
>
> Z2873# sysctl -a |grep physmem
> hw.physmem: 259481600
> Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
> Z2873# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s1b
> kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b
>
> reboot -d
> ...
> dumping 255M 2 chunks
>
>
> Then nothing - the system doesn't reboot and I have to hard reset it.
> When it comes back up there is no crash file in /var/crash
>
> from /var/log/messages:
> Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: ad0: 28615MB <IBM DJSA-230 JS6OAB0A> at
> ata0-master UDMA66
> Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 savecore: no dumps found
>
> Is this broken?
It's a known problem.  If when the machine reboots, you forcefully enter
single-user, you should be able to get the kernel dump using savecore.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/118255

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