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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:36:23 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel debugger and X11.
Message-ID:  <20020319213623.GA7786@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020319143448.A44276@panzer.kdm.org>
References:  <20020319201528.GI4989@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020319143448.A44276@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem?  I'm sure
> > that I'm not the only one of us with it.
> 
> I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if
> you're in X when the machine panics, and you can get a stack trace and look
> at things once the machine reboots.
> 

I suppose.  Is it possible to switch the debugger off via a sysctl,
without compiling it out?

Joe

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