Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:08:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_condvar.c kern_synch.c src/sys/sys proc.h Message-ID: <20010823100815.E31104@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010821235437.A64706@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:54:37PM -0700 References: <200108211842.f7LIgkp03186@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010821134601.J81307@elvis.mu.org> <20010821124428.B17739@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010821164833.D58026@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20010821170420.L81307@elvis.mu.org> <20010821235437.A64706@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tuesday, 21 August 2001 at 23:54:37 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:04:21PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> This is a pretty useless bug report. >> >> Please read the section in the handbook about kernel debugging >> and get us a useful traceback/crashdump as well as systat type >> info. > > OK Albert, > > I am one of these people. How the hell do you expect me to get > crashdumps when my entire disk subsystem is what is freezing and going > out to lunch??? I get to ddb and type `panic'. All I get is the first > part of the message of writing to disk. But guess what!?! Nothing > happens because guess what!?! I no longer have a disk subsystem to save > the crashdump to. `ps' will totally wedge the machine when it is in this > state also. > > Now would *YOU* like to offer something other than "pretty useless" > debugging advice. I can't speak for Alfred, but I'd advise you to set up a serial debug link. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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