Re: bug tracking

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Richard Hector said:

> Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there some
> significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous for
> Linux?

even better, I've had my solaris boxes able to panic and dump their
"oops" messages to a syslog server before rebooting!

Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: WARNING: [AFT1] Bus Error on System Bus in
privileged mode from CPU0 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x00000000.84000000<PRIV,BERR> AFAR 0x000001fe.02000400
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1025b434
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100033d60:
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: [AFT1] errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 BERR Error(s)
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa previous message(s) for details
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix:
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: syncing file systems...
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100057d60:
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic sync timeout
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix:
Mar 26 11:18:41 nis-wa unix: dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0, offset 1822752768
Mar 26 11:20:26 nis-wa unix:  100% done: 11732 pages dumped, compression
ratio 3.08,
Mar 26 11:20:27 nis-wa unix: dump succeeded
Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix:  SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-18
64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix: Copyright (c) 1983-1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: WARNING: [AFT1] Bus Error on System Bus in
privileged mode from CPU0 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x00000000.84000000<PRIV,BERR> AFAR 0x000001fe.02000400
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1025b434
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100033d60:
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: [AFT1] errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 BERR Error(s)
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa previous message(s) for details
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix:
Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: syncing file systems...
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100057d60:
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic sync timeout
Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix:
Mar 26 11:18:41 nis-wa unix: dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0, offset 1822752768
Mar 26 11:20:26 nis-wa unix:  100% done: 11732 pages dumped, compression
ratio 3.08,
Mar 26 11:20:27 nis-wa unix: dump succeeded
Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix:  SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-18
64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]


oh how I WISH linux could manage that ...it would be so helpful

nate