Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:52:43 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, mistwolf@ethereal.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Message-ID: <1487.929746363@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:56:05 -0700. <19990617195605.A9528@wopr.caltech.edu>
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In message <19990617195605.A9528@wopr.caltech.edu>, you wrote: >On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> It is hard for me to know if _that_ (spontaneous reboot) is happening or >> not because (as I said earlier) I am _not_ configured to get panic dumps >> at present. > >Compiling a kernel with "options DDB" should dump you into the debugger >if your kernel panics. So you should at least be able to tell the >difference a panic and a spontaneous reboot. That might be helpful, _if_ the system had a monitor on it and *if* I was seated somewhere in the general vicinity of that monitor. But the system normally has no monitor attached to it, and even if it did, I would still be attempting to view that from a distance of in excess of 2,000 statute miles. This doesn't work very well. >Of course, compiling a new kernel with different options might change >the reproducability of the panic/reboot. Of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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