Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:35:25 +0200 From: Dave Boers <djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Dave Boers <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl>, Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@yahoo.com>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, bart@ixori.demon.nl, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and vn Message-ID: <20000329203525.A379@relativity.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <200003291604.IAA63016@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:04:12AM -0800 References: <20000327183911.18682.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com> <20000329132919.A10781@relativity.student.utwente.nl> <200003291604.IAA63016@apollo.backplane.com>
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It is rumoured that Matthew Dillon had the courage to say:
> I suspect you are getting a panic, but due to X running you can't
> see it. The goal should be to get to a DDB prompt on the console
> to be able to see the panic and 'trace' and 'ps', and then to
> (if possible) get a kernel core by typing 'panic' from the DDB prompt.
[my previous reply hasn't made round from the mailinglist yet, so I can't
reply to self here yet.]
I reconfigured my kernel. It's now booting on the serial terminal as a
console. Also I removed DDB_UNATTENDED from my kernel config and added
DIAGNOSTIC to it.
_IF_ there's an unnoticed kernel panic going along with the system hang
then I will be dropped in DDB on the serial terminal if all is well. This
way, I won't miss out on any kernel messages while using X.
Last but not least, I don't have the ATA driver in my kernel anymore, to
rule out UDMA66 bugs. The system is now running from scsi only.
Talk to you all in 5-7 days or so :-)
Regards,
Dave.
--
Dave Boers < djb @ ifa . au . dk >
Physics graduate student && unix/BSD sysadmin - University of Twente
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