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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel debugger and X11.
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>=20
> > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem?  I'm sure
> > that I'm not the only one of us with it.
>=20
> I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if
> you're in X when the machine panics, and you can get a stack trace and lo=
ok
> at things once the machine reboots.
>=20

I suppose.  Is it possible to switch the debugger off via a sysctl,
without compiling it out?

Joe

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