From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 15:56:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 F17D816A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:56:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E06FD43D48 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 13400 invoked by uid 65534); 8 Dec 2004 15:56:24 -0000 Received: from p3EE2699E.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (62.226.105.158) by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 08 Dec 2004 16:56:24 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB8FuJLw015816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:56:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: Robert Watson Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:56:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200412081547.14882.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200412081547.14882.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1447125.kpoCTPCfUL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412081656.07944.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crashdumps not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:56:27 -0000 --nextPart1447125.kpoCTPCfUL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I played around with the kernel debug options a little and found peculiar=20 things:=20 =2D With just options KDB (and no debugger backend specified), a panic will= just=20 cause some output scroll very fast on the console - perhaps kdb is trying t= o=20 enter a nonexisting debugger backend and loops? =2D With options KDB, KDB_UNATTENDED and DDB, a panic _does_ trigger DDB,=20 contrary to what the description of KDB_UNATTENDED says. It seems to me 5.3's debugging facilities are somewhat in disarray... =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1447125.kpoCTPCfUL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBtyQXXhc68WspdLARAkcsAKCbHR+iAap7v3QE1Bs8chANAfYbWACbBMWw 1LdYay6VoHZQyhhNTlUvrB4= =hCTG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1447125.kpoCTPCfUL--