mkdir -p /var/crash/$(hostname) pfexec dumpadm -y And ideally, put "set dump_plat_mincpu=0" in /etc/system, lest the core dump code try to thread and fail miserably.
Next time you die, you should get a core dump in /var/crash/[hostname]/, presuming your dump device has enough space. - Rich On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:18 PM, David Scharbach <david.scharb...@mac.com> wrote: > I will make a memtest ISO ASAP. /var/adm/messages shows nothing. /var/crash > does not exist on my system. > > Will see what memtest says. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On 2013-01-15, at 9:10 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > >> David Scharbach wrote: >>> I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks >>> up completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun. >>> >>> Question I have is where would I start to look to see why? I first thought >>> it may be due to scrubbing load on the LSI controller but that is not the >>> case. It crashed today hours after a curb was successful at 2AM. >>> >>> I am a new OI user and would really appreciate a bit of help on this one. >>> Basically looking for a crash dump of some sort and the locations that I >>> have looked at don't really help. >>> >>> System is >>> >>> i3 CPU >>> 32GB Ram >>> LSI SAS2008 >>> Intel SAS expander >>> 13 SATA 7200RPM drives >>> Asus MB >> >> Is there any evidence of a crash in the logs? >> >> Look in /var/adm/messages for any clues and under /var/crash/<hostname> for >> any dumps. >> >> I'm not sure if there is a version of Solaris CAT (Crash Analysis Tool) that >> works with OI. If there is and you have a dump that's the best place to >> look. >> >> If there isn't any evidence of a crash, there's a fair chance you have a >> hardware problem. I'm guessing that with an i3 motherboard you won't have >> ECC memory, so running memtest86 for a while would be a good start. >> >> -- >> Ian. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss