Re: Reproducible Panic with port iplog

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:45:05 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Doug White said:
>
> > I'll see if I can reproduce this, but in the interim you might try
> > disabling PREEMPTION.  It doesn't quite have all the bugs worked out yet.
>
> Disabling PREEMPTION does indeed stop the panic from occuring.

OK, good to hear.

> > If you want to get a dump try compiling in KDB and DDB then doing "call
> > doadump" when it panics.  It should either start dumping or complain why
> > it can't. Last I checked dumps to ATA worked :)
>
> Typing "call doadump" in the kernel debugger does work. Is there no way to
> have the kernel automatically do a dump when the system panics and there
> is no debugger compiled in?

That should be the default behavior if a dumpdev is set (in rc.conf with
"dumpdev" or manually with the dumpon(8) command).

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Received on Tue Mar 08 2005 - 01:45:06 UTC

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