Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:41:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel debugger and X11. Message-ID: <200203192141.g2JLfCC14788@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20020319213623.GA7786@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser writes: | > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure | > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. | > | > 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 look | > at things once the machine reboots. | > | I suppose. Is it possible to switch the debugger off via a sysctl, | without compiling it out? You could switch it to ddb_unattended via: sysctl -w debug.debugger_on_panic=0 when you start and flip when you exit. Then just leave everything compiled in your kernel. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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