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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:51:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [amd64] Instability worse than ever
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20040726165131.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040726151035.GB1473@green.homeunix.org>

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On 26-Jul-2004 Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:58:23AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>> 
>> OK, I've built a new kernel (after cvsup) with INVARIANTS and
>> WITNESS enabled, and double-checked my serial debugging setup,
>> however, it's just occurred to me that this probably isn't going to
>> help very much in this particular situation, as I already had
>> debug.debugger_on_panic enabled, and the system still just went
>> directly to a reboot, bypassing the debugger altogether.
> 
> Were you running X?  It is recognized that the console is
> "unavailable" when running X, and if no consoles are available,
> debug.debugger_on_panic has no effect.

Ah, OK.  That would explain that.  :-)

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"



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