Ivan Voras wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: > >> 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. > > No need for that - I'm running it under VMWare so I can route serial > ports between VMs. > > The big problem is that most of the panics happen with cd9660 as the > root file system (LiveCD setup) and I'll have to see what I can do with > serial ports in this environment. But it's a good idea. > When I get a panic while in X, I can now (recently - this was not true 3 or 4 months ago) just type "call doadump [enter] reset [enter]" and I'll get a crash dump and the system will reboot. I then analyze the dump later. I can't see the text, but it actually *is* in the debugger (for me anyway). That's how I tracked this dirbad issue down when I saw it the first time. EricReceived on Wed Aug 29 2007 - 09:31:23 UTC
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