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Less known Solaris features: About crashes and cores - Appendix A: Crash Dump Analysis revisited
I have forgotten to describe a really handy function when you analyse a crash dump. Solaris has an in-memory buffer for the console messages. In the case you write a crash dump, obviously this messages are written into the crash dump as well.
With the ::msgbuf command of mdb you can read this message buffer.
So it´s really easy to get this last messages of a dying system with mdb from the crash dump alone.