Hi JB, On the dump device issue:
=?UTF-8?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=c3=abl?= wrote: > >> I have checked, always the same panic message. I would have more > >> information, but as you see, "dump device 'is' bad". For a while, my > >> system is not able to write kernel dump. With -9, it worked. Never with > >> -10 (but without message). -10.99 complains against bad device. My swap > >> is on raid0b. Maybe kernel cannot write a dump on a raid slice. > > > > I have filed PR kern/59024: dump fails on raid0b > > <https://gnats.NetBSD.org/59024> to track the dump issue. Can you > > please update your kernel to HEAD (with sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c > > rev. 1.370) and try again? > > > > Can you confirm that you had the same disk configuration in 9, 10, and > > HEAD -- that is, dump device configured to be raid0b, and the same > > disklabel type of swap for raid0b? > > This server was installer with -8.0 and upgraded. Disks have been > replaced, but disk configuration was the same from installation to now. > [ ... ] > /dev/raid0b none swap sw,dp 0 0 I'm using 10.99.10 with a raidframe mirror for swap/dump and it works. I'm now using GPT everywhere, but have previously used disklabels successfully. thoreau 56978> gpt show -a raid2 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 94 Unused 128 134233823 1 GPT part - NetBSD swap Type: swap TypeID: 49f48d32-b10e-11dc-b99b-0019d1879648 GUID: 64a7f3b1-bfb3-428e-815f-c995ec6b1310 Size: 65544 M Label: swap Attributes: None 134233951 32 Sec GPT table 134233983 1 Sec GPT header thoreau 56979> grep swap /etc/fstab NAME=swap none swap sw 0 0 NAME=swap none swap dp 0 0 I forget why I have separate lines for "sw" and "dp", but that seems to be the main difference in our config. Maybe try that and see if it works for you? Also, does this show that you have a valid dump device configured with your current fstab config? thoreau 56984> swapctl -z dump device is dk8 Cheers, Simon.
