From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 5 13:29:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from field.videotron.net (field.videotron.net [205.151.222.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8978937B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modemcable213.3-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.3.213]) by field.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.12.14.10.29.p8) with ESMTP id <0G1Z00K8C4SWA9@field.videotron.net> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 16:30:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Bosko Milekic Subject: Re: When do you want to see panics? In-reply-to: <20001005161501.A79896@blackhelicopters.org> X-Sender: bmilekic@jehovah.technokratis.com To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, not in the general case, they are not normal! So feel free to provide the info. :-) On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > Not sure if this is on-topic, but what the heck: > > I've started playing a little more freely with my laptop. One result > is comparatively frequent panics when doing things I know damn well > are almost certain to fail, say, while playing with the Linuxulator or > in mount_union. > > Are these panics & debugger dumps something people want to see, or is > the general attitude "then don't *do* that!" ? > > If you folks want 'em, I'll send them. > > (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics > normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?" ;) > > Thanks, > Michael > > -- > Michael Lucas > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Regards, Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message