From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 23 21:05:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA13042 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA13010 Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA15067; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:28:13 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604240358.NAA15067@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:28:12 +0930 (CST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 23, 96 09:48:43 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > > Is it also a hardware problem that prevents me from getting > a coredump after issuing 2xpanic at the ddb> prompt to cause it to > reboot? My -current machine reboots and drops core so that I can > run kgdb against it, but my -stable machine won't :( This machines has an NCR controller in it IIRC. You should talk to Stefan about this - dumping requires the controller to run in polled mode, and it's possible that's not happening. > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[