Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:54:48 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Autodumping on panic Message-ID: <200703071054.49247.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20070302210447.GE2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200703061159.05435.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:05, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > HI, John, > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:59:04AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Yes, KDB_UNATTENDED will work, but there is a bug in that the system should > > not enter DDB when you are in X, it should just drop a dump and then reboot. > > This used to work but is broken in 5.x and later I believe. IWBN to get this > > fixed again. > > I'm lured to consider this as a feature, since it doesn't appear to > be possible to use DDB when a crash occured while in X. What am I > missing here ? Right now a panic while in X just hangs and doesn't do a dump at all if DDB is enabled. This is a bug, it should notice it can't enter DDB and just skip DDB, do a dump, and reboot. The problem is that it _doesn't_ do the feature. -- John Baldwin
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