OS bug in taskq

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Elliot Finley wrote:
> I have:
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> in /etc/rc.conf and:
> ... 
> in the kernel and I'm still unable to obtain a crash dump.  Hopefully
> there is enough info in this email for a hacker to point me in the
> right direction to debug this.

I can't help with the panic itself, but the reason for the inability to
obtain a crash dump is mentioned in a thread I started in November:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038069.html

The explanation of the problem was documented best by Doug Barton in
this thread (over at freebsd-rc@):

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2007-November/001263.html

Open PR:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118255

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                  PGP: 4BD6C0CB |