From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 16 07:25:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFC1106566B for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out3.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT3.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0C88FC12 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,410,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="8558587" Received: from zivmaildisp2.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.143]) by zivm-relay3.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 16 Jul 2009 09:25:40 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id C76881B008B; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:25:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:25:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Robert Watson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (CTRL-C to abort) flood when core dumps 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: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:25:43 -0000 i'm running on a real machine with a usb keyboard and usb mouse. i'm having no problems with the keyboard or mouse whatsoever and during the core dump i didn't press any key nor did i use the mouse. cheers. alex Robert Watson schrieb am 2009-07-16: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > >when debug.debugger_on_panic is 0, a panic occurs and the core > >dumps the console gets flooded with the following notice: > >(CTRL-C to abort) > >could we please output the warning only once? or every 10 seconds > >or so? > Normally that message is printed only when a key other than ctrl-c > is hit during the dump. It's certainly possible to rate-limit the > message, or just limit it to printing once, but the more interesting > question is why the kernel thinks a key is (effectively) held down > such that it needs to print repeatedly. Could you tell us a bit > more about your configuration -- ps/2 / usb / serial console? Mouse > of some sort? Virtual machine or real machine? Any other problems > with keyboards during normal operation? Any chance a key is being > held down? > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge