Larry Cohen wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm pretty sure I have installed the lkcd patch and utilities ok
> but when I the system panics it
> will hang when trying to write out the dump to the swap device.
> My disks are IDE not SCSI is this a problem?
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Cohen
Do you have the output from the console? It sounds like you
have everything configured correctly. If you run "/sbin/vmdump config",
are the right values showing up in /proc/sys/vmdump? IDE and SCSI
disks should work with the 3.1.1 patches.
Typically there are problems when the right devices aren't configured
in /proc/sys/vmdump (which are updated when "/sbin/vmdump config" is
run), or /proc/sys/kernel/panic is zero, which means the system won't
reset after taking a dump.
Note that you have to modify your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (or like script
depending on the Linux variant you are running) to add the /sbin/vmdump
calls. Check out the README.
If you've done all this and it still fails, send me the console output,
along with your hardware specifications, and we'll see what we can do
about getting to the bottom of your problem. Thanks, Larry.
--Matt
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