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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:29:08 -0600
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is my -current system Hard Locking?
Message-ID:  <20021105172908.GA36314@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <15815.56296.463941.374808@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <149469335.1036439809@[192.168.1.20]> <15815.56296.463941.374808@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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> <...>
>  > don't think this is related to the X FP problem ( although I am
>  > running X11 ).  There have been many times when I'd walk in the
> <...>
>  > options         DDB                     #Enable the kernel debugger
> <...>
> 
> Its likley you are panic'ing in X, and the system is waiting at the
> ddb prompt.  But you can't see it or do anything, since X has control
> of the graphics and kbd, so it looks like the machine is frozen.
> 
> Try adding options DDB_UNATTENDED  to your config.  Or just do
> sysctl  debug.debugger_on_panic=0
> 
I can't seem to find the beginning of this thread, but I think I may 
be seeing the same problem.  Whenever I try to close X I get a blank 
screen, but I can ssh in from another machine.  I can even run startx 
from ssh and it brings up X on the console again.
 
-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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