From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 15:13:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4E016A58F for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339F5449C9 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:05:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029A9290C29; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40555-03; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806A0290C25; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E01F75C284; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA0D5C279; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:53 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:53 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gavin Atkinson In-Reply-To: <1151323574.80434.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20060626110502.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060626085321.T1114@ganymede.hub.org> <1151323574.80434.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: force panic of remote server ... possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:13:14 -0000 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 ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664