Experiencing hangs on SMP box with no console messages given for clues. Details inside.

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 10 19:39:48 UTC 2007


On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:14:23AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:

> If I'm understanding what I'm reading, this isn't all that helpful
> because it's just saying that I broke into the kernel debugger and then
> issued a manual panic (which is true, that's how I got the core). Is
> there a way to obtain information on what was happening before I broke
> into the debugger?

Well you really needed to investigate some things in DDB before
rebooting, e.g. the lock states.  I thought this was described in the
developers handbook - did you look for it?

Kris
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