Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:09:16 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Matthew Hunt' <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011059B7@site2s1>
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Doesn't someone have to be sitting at the console for DDB to be of any use? If I remember this thread correctly, this is an offsite machine where console access is unavailable. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Hunt [SMTP:mph@astro.caltech.edu] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 10:56 PM > 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. > > 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 <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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