System Administration Guide

Example--Examining a Crash Dump

The following example shows sample output from the crash utility. Information about status, and about the buffer, process, and queue size is displayed.


# /usr/sbin/crash
dumpfile = /dev/mem, namelist = /dev/ksyms, outfile = stdout
> status
system name:    SunOS
release:        5.6
node name:      saturn
version:        Generic
machine name:   sun4m
time of crash:  Fri Jan 10 14:14:39 1997
age of system:  60 day, 5 hr., 24 min.
panicstr:
panic registers:
        eip: 0     esp: 0
> size buf proc queue
120
1552
88