From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 16:24:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A3316A403; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1AF13C481; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l27GOUM2020245; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:24:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Jeremie Le Hen Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:54:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20070302210447.GE2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200703061159.05435.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703071054.49247.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:24:40 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/2763/Wed Mar 7 08:14:49 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Autodumping on panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:24:45 -0000 On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:05, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > HI, John, > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:59:04AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Yes, KDB_UNATTENDED will work, but there is a bug in that the system should > > not enter DDB when you are in X, it should just drop a dump and then reboot. > > This used to work but is broken in 5.x and later I believe. IWBN to get this > > fixed again. > > I'm lured to consider this as a feature, since it doesn't appear to > be possible to use DDB when a crash occured while in X. What am I > missing here ? Right now a panic while in X just hangs and doesn't do a dump at all if DDB is enabled. This is a bug, it should notice it can't enter DDB and just skip DDB, do a dump, and reboot. The problem is that it _doesn't_ do the feature. -- John Baldwin