From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 18:57:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED83A1065670 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C97E8FC08 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D534A2D8C6; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:55:56 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:55:56 -0800 From: Jason To: sean connolly Message-ID: <20100304185553.GA41984@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <775910.52553.qm@web35807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <775910.52553.qm@web35807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Dan Naumov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:57:41 -0000 On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:50:56AM -0800, sean connolly thus spake: >Hi Dan, > >Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful. > >Sean > I only slightly disagree, in that in a production environment it may be useful to have the information regardless of the branch to report to an internal company e-mail address. But, maybe there is a routine for -CURRENT to go to @freebsd, in addition to an internal address. Just some thoughts... -j > > > >________________________________ >From: jhell >To: Dan Naumov >Cc: FreeBSD Hackers ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 8:06:50 AM >Subject: Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system > > >On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:09, dan.naumov@ wrote: >> Hello >> >> I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website: >> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has >> there been any progress/work done on the automated kernel crash >> reporting system? The current ways of enabling and gathering the >> information required by developers for investigating panics and >> similar issues are unintuitive and user-hostile to say the least and >> anything to automate the process would be a very welcome addition. >> >> >> - Sincerely, >> Dan Naumov >> > >Hi Dan, > >I am assuming that the output of crashinfo_enable="YES" is not what you >are talking about is it ? are you aware of it ? > >The info contained in the crashinfo.txt.N is pretty informative for >developers, maybe your talking about another way of submitting it ? > >Regards, > >-- > > jhell > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"