Retrieving info from panics while in X

[Florent Thoumie]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:01 -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has any plans to address the issue of retrieving
> panic/debugging information about crashes happening while X is running.
> 
> For example, -current has been broken for me for several days now; it will
> reliably crash within an hour or so while the main thing I'm doing is running
> Opera under KDE. But without X, no crash. How does one obtain panic
> information in this situation?

Connect your machine to another one with a null-modem cable. Turn the
console on in /etc/ttys on your -CURRENT machine (ttyd0 line). Then use
"tip com1" on the other machine.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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