From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 9: 7:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F6A14F41 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:07:30 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011059B7@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Matthew Hunt' , "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:09:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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