Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:32:02 +0200 From: "Norbert Koch" <NKoch@demig.de> To: "Warren Toomey" <wkt@tuhs.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Auto Reboot on Panic? Message-ID: <002b01c58c33$f4efbca0$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG> In-Reply-To: <20050719002404.GA39681@minnie.tuhs.org>
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> I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think > I have set > the box up to do this, but on the last panic it didn't reboot. I > followed the > information at http://www.bsdatwork.com/2002/03/29/system_panics_part_1/, > and I have compiled a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g, options KDB, > options KDB_UNATTENDED. > > /etc/rc.conf has these lines: dumpdev="/dev/ad6s1b", > dumpdir="/usr/local/var/crash". The box has 768M of RAM, ad6s1b has > at least that much space, and is configured as swap. > > Can anybody tell me what I have forgotten to do to make the box reboot on > a panic? Many thanks in advance, > > Warren Hello. >From my understanding of the kernel options: options PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME=xx # seconds before reboot options KDB_UNATTENDED # only required if compiled with kernel debugger # options RESTARTABLE_PANICS # should not be set May be, you should also set kern.shutdown.kproc_shutdown_wait in sysctl.conf to some reasonable time. Norbert
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