From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 6 16:21:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25287 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:21:14 -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 QAA25266 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA22785; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 02:21:01 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA26661; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 02:21:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA12349; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 01:38:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604062338.BAA12349@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: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 01:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604061730.TAA02698@birk04.studby.uio.no> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C5ge?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F8bekk=22?=" at Apr 6, 96 07:30:21 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 As =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C5ge?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F8bekk=22?= wrote: > I'd like to see that there actually _is_ a core dump, to see the > "dumping to dev ..." text. E.g. this crash does delay for the usual > time to write a core file to the swap device and then reboots, but Use text screens if you suspect (or know :) about kernel problems. > savecore does not find any core file upon boot. But would switching > to the text console require that the kernel has particular knowledge > of the graphics card? Yes. It's about 150 k lines of code in the Xservers... By now, the Xserver must be signalled before the VT can be got back into normal state. Obviously, signalling the Xserver won't help in situations where the kernel stalls, and cannot continue to serve processes. -- 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. ;-)