From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 15:51:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from value.net (value.net [209.182.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB1D14C93 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by value.net (8.8.7/8.7.4) with ESMTP id PAA25100; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01489; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:52:44 -0700 To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Dan Nelson , Greg Lehey , Thomas David Rivers , mistwolf@ethereal.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:56:05 -0700. <19990617195605.A9528@wopr.caltech.edu> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:52:43 -0700 Message-ID: <1487.929746363@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990617195605.A9528@wopr.caltech.edu>, you wrote: >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. That might be helpful, _if_ the system had a monitor on it and *if* I was seated somewhere in the general vicinity of that monitor. But the system normally has no monitor attached to it, and even if it did, I would still be attempting to view that from a distance of in excess of 2,000 statute miles. This doesn't work very well. >Of course, compiling a new kernel with different options might change >the reproducability of the panic/reboot. Of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message