From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 6 08:20:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA05827 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA05817 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA15465; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:20:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA20296; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:20:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA01697; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:09:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604061609.SAA01697@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Hangs after editing a disklabel To: aagero@aage.priv.no (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C5ge?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F8bekk=22?=) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:09:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604061424.QAA01975@birk04.studby.uio.no> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C5ge?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F8bekk=22?=" at Apr 6, 96 04:24:55 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > rfc1522, line 145: > > Both "encoding" and "charset" names are case-independent. Thus the > charset name "ISO-8859-1" is equivalent to "iso-8859-1", and the > encoding named "Q" may be spelled either "Q" or "q". Ah, so our elm port is broken. > | > And since this does not leave a core dump, it's hard > | > to identify the cause. > | > | You probably need DDB for it. > > I'm using X most of the time, so there might be some console output > which I am not able to read. Is it possible to make the panic routine > switch to the console? Everything else goes to the console. If you had a panic (but no DDB configured), you would have noticed the reboot :). Nope, you need plain ol' text screens for it, or a serial console. Then you can use the `hotkey' to enter the debugger once the system stalls. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)