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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> > I.e., do the individual elements work from the debugger.  If they do, then
> > we can try the same from entering the debugger following the panic, and
> > see how things differ.
> 
> All of the above works when entering the debugger from the watchdog
> timeout, too. :-\

So it's basically sounding like it's really something about the call to
panic() in the non-debugger scenario.  I'm off on vacation for a week or
so, but once I get back I'll be happy to take a further look if no one
else has gotten to it by then.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research