{"id":6901,"date":"2005-01-10T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/kernel-core-dumps\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:54","slug":"kernel-core-dumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/kernel-core-dumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernel Core Dumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope someone here can help me out with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading through Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/technotes\/tn2002\/tn2063.html\">TN2118: Kernel Core Dumps<\/a> and it seems pretty straight forward. There is one thing I&#8217;m not quite getting, though. I can&#8217;t seem to find a way to make a machine panic and then dump core to the local disk. It only seems possible to dump to a remote machine running &#8216;macosxkdump&#8217;, not the local disk.<\/p>\n<p>And, well, since I&#8217;ve only got one Mac at home, and macosxkdump hasn&#8217;t yet been ported to any other OSS platforms (an OpenBSD port would be stellar right about now), I&#8217;m kinda sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else done this, or come up with a way to get dumps to go to a local disk?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: It appears that kdumpd from the network_cmds part of OpenDarwin is all that one needs to handle this. I&#8217;ve found postings online which say it&#8217;s trivial to port, but I don&#8217;t have the skill to do it. :( Would anyone else be up to this task?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope someone here can help me out with this&#8230; I&#8217;ve been reading through Apple TN2118: Kernel Core Dumps and it seems pretty straight forward. There is one thing I&#8217;m not quite getting, though. I can&#8217;t seem to find a way to make a machine panic and then dump core to the local disk. It\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14728,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/14728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}