[amd64] Instability worse than ever

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On 26-Jul-2004 Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:58:23AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>> 
>> OK, I've built a new kernel (after cvsup) with INVARIANTS and
>> WITNESS enabled, and double-checked my serial debugging setup,
>> however, it's just occurred to me that this probably isn't going to
>> help very much in this particular situation, as I already had
>> debug.debugger_on_panic enabled, and the system still just went
>> directly to a reboot, bypassing the debugger altogether.
> 
> Were you running X?  It is recognized that the console is
> "unavailable" when running X, and if no consoles are available,
> debug.debugger_on_panic has no effect.

Ah, OK.  That would explain that.  :-)

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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"