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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: not getting dump after crash
Message-ID: <1229@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 11:41:39 EST
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> Our 780 running 4.2 has been crashing with "panic: mchk,"  bet we are not
> getting crash dumps,  which makes it difficult to see what is happening.
> On other kinds of crashes we do not have this problem.  Any hints?  Is there
> a way to manually force a dump before rebooting?

I've noticed that we don't get dumps from panics at interrupt level.