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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:53 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: force panic of remote server ... possible?
Message-ID:  <20060626110502.L1114@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <1151323574.80434.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
References:  <20060626085321.T1114@ganymede.hub.org> <1151323574.80434.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out
>> that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled,
>> is there some way of forcing it to panic when I know I actually have the
>> deadlock, so that it will dump a core?
>
> You cen enter the debugger by setting the (badly names) debug.kdb.enter
> sysctl to 1, although I can't guarantee that'll trigger a dump and
> reboot.  Do you have a serial console?

Unfortunately, no ... that's why we're moving to using HP servers, so that 
we have the proper tools in place to deal with things more effectively 
remotely ...

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