Debugging via DDB

David N davidn04 at gmail.com
Fri May 29 04:54:08 UTC 2009


Hi,

I know this might sound like a newbie question.

I'm trying to debug a "Lockup" on 7.2-RELEASE. I've compiled DDB and
KDB into the kernel and make installkernel. (Can this be called a
deadlock?)

The machine still response to pings, but it looks like all disk
activity has stopped.

I can break into the debugger using CTRL-ALT-ESC, but after that, i
dont know what I'm looking for in particular.

bt (backtrace) gives me the stuff like the keyboard mutex ( i assume
it was the last thing that happened, but obviously it was the break)

Should I be including WITNESS?

Regards
David N


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