From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 19:58: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA8314E14 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA09664; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:56:05 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Dan Nelson , Greg Lehey , Thomas David Rivers , mistwolf@ethereal.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Message-ID: <19990617195605.A9528@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <19990617211655.A9746@dan.emsphone.com> <2530.929673053@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <2530.929673053@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > It is hard for me to know if _that_ (spontaneous reboot) is happening or > not because (as I said earlier) I am _not_ configured to get panic dumps > at present. Compiling a kernel with "options DDB" should dump you into the debugger if your kernel panics. So you should at least be able to tell the difference a panic and a spontaneous reboot. Of course, compiling a new kernel with different options might change the reproducability of the panic/reboot. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message