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From: Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3 Panic
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Christopher Key wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest what I should be doing to try to get a crash dump 
>> successfully to further diagnose this?  Is there anything else 
>> relevant I should post?
>
> Configure DDB and obtain the traceback from that instead (see the 
> developers handbook)
>
>
Thanks Kris,

I've created and installed a kernel with,

options KDB
options DDB
options KDB_UNATTENDED


I'll now wait and see if I can reproduce a crash.

Regards,

Chris