Autodumping on panic
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 7 16:24:45 UTC 2007
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
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