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Subject: RE: What to do when panic?
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> I've never debugged FreeBSD, but now I've decided to help the testing 
> process of  FreeBSD 6. I installed it, and then I had a panic. I got a 
> debugger prompt, but I don't know what to do with that. I don't know the 
> debugger commands. Please let me know what should I do when I have an 
> another panic. What should I type and what kind of information should I 
> send as a PR.

You should also have a look at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/Debug-tutorial/tutorial.pdf.
That's Greg Lehey's script of his excellent tutorial
on kernel debugging.

Norbert