crashdumps not working

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 13:38, Robert Watson wrote:

Okay, I've now enabled the following in the kernel:

options         KDB
options         KDB_TRACE
options         DDB

> So I'm thinking it
> would be nice to know:
>
> - Can you enter and continue from kdb normally using the sysctl.

Yes.

> - If you can enter kdb using the sysctl, does "call doadump()" work from
>   kdb?

Yes.

> - If you can enter kdb using the sysctl, oes "reset" work from kdb?

Yes.

> I.e., do the individual elements work from the debugger.  If they do, then
> we can try the same from entering the debugger following the panic, and
> see how things differ.

All of the above works when entering the debugger from the watchdog timeout, 
too. :-\

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