contradictory: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds ...

Hi,

while PXE booting I ran into a panic and got this message:

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...
panic: page fault

syncing disks, buffers remaining...
done
Uptime: 2s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
--> Press a key on the console to reboot,
--> or switch off the system now.
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so what should I do now - press a key to abort or press a key to
reboot?

Actually pressing a key seems to reboot the machine while not doing
anything results in nothing happening - so the automatic reboot
doesn't seem to happen. Perhaps some broken logic in shutdown_panic ?

most interesting kernel options: no DDB, no WITNESS, no INVARIANTS

Can someone please review an clarify the contradictory messages.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT