kern/96981: reproducible instant reboot by unprivileged user

[Lodewijk Vöge]

The following reply was made to PR kern/96981; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lodewijk_V=F6ge?= <lvoege at gmail.com>
To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/96981: reproducible instant reboot by unprivileged user
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:28:02 -0400

 On 26-apr-2007, at 8:58, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
 
 > Is this still a problem under 6.2?
 
 I will check.
 
 > If so, is there any chance you could wire up a serial console to  
 > the machine as described in
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/ 
 > freebsd.html
 > and follow the instructions at
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers- 
 > handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html
 > in order to obtain a stack trace once it has crashed?
 
 I believe I did try DDB at the time, but the lock was hard and solid  
 with no trapping to DDB. but if it's still a problem in 6.2 I will try.
 
 > It's likely that your machine is crashing and rebooting straight  
 > away as you are in X,
 > however the above may well provide enough information to help debug  
 > this
 > issue further.
 
 this was in text mode, even with X not running at all.
 
 Lodewijk