From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 22:30:05 2010 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 32D68106566C; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (out-0-30.mx.aerioconnect.net [216.240.47.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39D78FC18; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (postfix@mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oADMHY71027668; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:17:34 -0800 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D6452D6014; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:17:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CDF0E7F.3060406@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:17:35 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20101112223715.GA1356@freebsd.org> <20101113112447.GF2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113115900.GA14975@freebsd.org> <20101113122853.GG2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113123846.GA21390@freebsd.org> <20101113124146.GH2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113124758.GA23469@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 216.240.47.51 Cc: Kostik Belousov , Alexander Best , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/chromium crashing whole system 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: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:30:05 -0000 On 11/13/10 2:08 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Alexander Best wrote: > >>>> i tried detaching and attaching my keyboard after chromium >>>> crashed my system and the lights of the keyboard didn't even went >>>> on. so in fact everything crashed and not just X. >>> If I said it unclear, let me repeat, the usermode crash dump you >>> got probably has nothing common with the kernel issue. >> >> oh sorry. indeed i misunderstood you there. well i guess this is >> the problem most regular users have. we don't own any >> serial/firewire consoles. all i can offer is to add kernel OPTIONS. >> however none of them seem to be able to prevent the lock up and >> instead letting me enter the debugger or trigger a kernel core dump. >> >> i even have watchdog running, but without any sucess. i guess all i >> can hope for is that maybe at some point a kernel dump does make it >> to disk. > > Do you have a second box you can run X11 on, and SSH into the box > that will run Chromium? If it is really Chromium triggering the > crash, this might allow you to access the console when it crashes. > However, if it's Chromium triggering an X11-related crash, it might > well not. (Also, it might well not because of timing differences, > but it is worth a try). > > Another thing to consider is starting Chromium when switched to a > text virtual console from X11, which would leave you in text mode > for DDB, or at least let you see something interesting on the console. > > If regular crashdumps appear unreliable, try setting up a textdump > with an automatic reboot, that might provde more reliable (small > chance, but it could). we did have some people working on an ethernet version of the dcons/remote debugging stuff I guess it only supports a small subset of ethernet chips though.. Anyone know the status of that work? > Robert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >