Reproducible Panic with port iplog

[Doug White]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Doug White said:
>
> >> Typing "call doadump" in the kernel debugger does work. Is there no way
> >> to
> >> have the kernel automatically do a dump when the system panics and there
> >> is no debugger compiled in?
> >
> > That should be the default behavior if a dumpdev is set (in rc.conf with
> > "dumpdev" or manually with the dumpon(8) command).
>
> It does not seem to be for me. The system just stands there doing nothing
> after the panic, when there is no debugger built in the kernel.
>
> P.S. I have also submitted a PR for this.
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78384

I don't know if I can get to this before the release, but I've put it on
my tracking list.  I need a way to provoke a panic, and the best way seems
to be to program the syscons panic key.

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