Re: Autodumping on panic

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:54:48 -0500
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:05, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> HI, John,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:59:04AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Yes, KDB_UNATTENDED will work, but there is a bug in that the system 
should 
> > not enter DDB when you are in X, it should just drop a dump and then 
reboot.  
> > This used to work but is broken in 5.x and later I believe.  IWBN to get 
this 
> > fixed again.
> 
> I'm lured to consider this as a feature, since it doesn't appear to
> be possible to use DDB when a crash occured while in X.  What am I
> missing here ?

Right now a panic while in X just hangs and doesn't do a dump at all if DDB is 
enabled.  This is a bug, it should notice it can't enter DDB and just skip 
DDB, do a dump, and reboot.  The problem is that it _doesn't_ do the feature.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Wed Mar 07 2007 - 15:24:45 UTC

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