Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:30 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r197065 - in stable/8: etc/defaults lib/libc/stdlib sys/amd64/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909101759280.32227@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <B2406051-CD40-4559-82AB-5F517A17D332@elvandar.org> References: <200909101404.n8AE41C6021588@svn.freebsd.org> <200909101023.44913.jhb@freebsd.org> <1252593149.75144.18.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <200909101118.22525.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909101641170.78984@fledge.watson.org> <B2406051-CD40-4559-82AB-5F517A17D332@elvandar.org>
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Remko Lodder wrote: > I agree with that; it would (!) help the bugbusting team in gathering > required information. If there is an way to automate crashdumps and proper > reporting and stick that in /var/crash/crash.$date or something and tell > people that they can report their problems on the bugs list where needed, we > have information upfront. I still remember the time where we had to chase > people to get this information, sometimes never being able to properly get > the information. If it is there by default, it will help. > > Please consider keeping it enabled.. Well, John's crashinfo(8) tool from Yahoo! does all this, the only "problem" is that it requires extracting the crashdump to a local file system. It seems like we have a lot of the right ingredients, maybe we can have a brain-storming session on distributed diagnostics and debugging at the Devsummit on how to find some better middle grounds here. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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