Re: Repeated UFS panics?

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>> By any chance, are there some oddly named directories?  I found that UFS
>> will panic with a ufs_dirbad if there are some strange chars in the dir
>> name.  My directories were copied with rsync, from one UFS partition to
>> another.  It could be the way rsync translated it or the way UFS sent it
>> to rsync during read, I'm not certain.  I still have the bad file
> 
> I don't think so, except if make installworld generates such filenames,
> which I don't think it does.
> 
>> system, corresponding core file, etc.  I even ran fsdb on the fs to
>> track down the offending directory, and I think I found it.  Of course,
>> I could rename it in fsdb, but that would remove my test case.  I
>> stopped debugging it when I got busy, but if there is an interested
>> person willing to help be with some debug ideas, I can go back into it.
> 
> On a tangent: has somebody found a way to debug panics from X11 - i.e.
> when I detect a panic with the telltale sign that everything including
> the mouse stops working, can I reset the video mode from the kernel
> debugger (typing blind) and proceed to use the debugger?
> 
> 

It would be easier to attach a serial console to the system, even if it 
is in the form of a second machine and null modem cable.  The handbook 
will hold your had if you want to try setting it up.

Tom