From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 21:55:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75A616A513; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:55:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from leguin.anholt.net (69-30-77-85.dq1sn.easystreet.com [69.30.77.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A7643D2D; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:55:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from leguin.anholt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leguin.anholt.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBPLtMdI037484; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: (from anholt@localhost) by leguin.anholt.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBPLtMhx037483; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: leguin.anholt.net: anholt set sender to eta@lclark.edu using -f From: Eric Anholt To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:55:21 -0800 Message-Id: <1104011721.856.73.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reboot instead of debugger/dump from X11? (Re: an accidental way to pull the plug) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:55:25 -0000 On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 21:40 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I got a little too fast just now, and did something that I shouldn't > > have done, but what's interesting is, FreeBSD decided to pull the plug > > and instantly reboot, which is usually something to be regarded as > > pathological, so I am letting you folks know. I haven't analyzed > > exactly what happened to cause it, actually. > > With the recent 802.11 panic I posted about a bit earlier, I saw something > rather odd: when the panic took place on the normal text console, the > system dropped to the debugger. However, when it took place with X11 > running, I got an "instant reboot" -- no dump, etc. So something odd is > happening during even normal failure modes when X11 is running for me. I > wonder if anyone else is seeing this? > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research I've been having mysterious reboots on my amd64 when using gdb for just about anything, and I'm always in X. I'm supposed to be dropping to debugger on panic, but that's obviously not happening. I've been waiting for a good time (hah) to reproduce it in the console to see if it's X related, but haven't yet. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org