crashconf on HP-UX 11.0

[David Child_1]

I am having a problem with system crashes, but the crash dumps are never saved. I have defined "/etc/rc.config.d/crashconf" and "/etc/rc.config.d/savecrash" (attached) on a test box and forced a dump. Everything worked fine. I then defined them the same on our development box and no dump is saved during a real crash (I can't get much downtime to test).

Unfortunately we are only using primary swap as the only dump device. I will be setting up actual dump space, but I will need to add more disks and that may take a while.

My question is, why isn't a partial dump being saved?

System Info:
HP9000/V2600 HP-UX 11.0 March 2000 patch level
8GB Physical Memory
1GB Primary Swap
No defined dump devices

Typical console message when crash occurs:
*** The dump will be a PARTIAL SELECTIVE dump: 1024 of 8188 megabytes. (wanted 1375 megabytes)

Typical rc.log entry after crash:
Save system crash dump if needed
Output from "/sbin/rc1.d/S440savecrash start":
----------------------------
savecrash: Cannot save incomplete dump.

EXIT CODE: 2 - savecrash found no core dump to save
"/sbin/rc1.d/S440savecrash start" SKIPPED

Note: I also added the output from 'crashconf -v' to the attachment

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi!
I don't know V servers, but here's a thread for Ls similar to you problem:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xffb514a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

good luck.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi David

If you do not have sufficient space for the crash file then the server will abort the dump and continue. Search the forum of setting the size for your crash area.


Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi David

This may help:-

http://europe-support2.external.hp.com/iv/bin/doc.pl/sid=46e225c31619473c9d/screen=ivHome/?NODEID=English_SHW::WW_SW_UX_KERNEL_EN_E/Q1.6&WARP=1


Paula

[David Child_1]

Thanks for the replies. I know I need to add more dump space. I was mostly wondering why the partial dump couldn't be saved. I guess there is a minimum.

Paula -- I couldn't access the listed doc so I don't know what it pertains to.