From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 21:11:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA27037 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27032 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:11:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02075; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:38:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:38:27 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Steve cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: reboot on panic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Steve wrote: > > Is there any way to get a freebsd box (2.0.5 or higher) to not reboot on a > panic but to leave the panic on the screena and just hault? > > Im having trouble troubleshooting a machine that refuses to have a problem > when Im there looking at it. > > Any and all suggestions appreciated! > Well here's one....maybe not the best.... If in the kernel configuration file you have options KTRACE options DDB when the kernel panics it will go into kdbg mode, waiting for input, and thus will not reboot. It is actually possible to get it to reboot if you were on-line when it happened by issuing the appropriate commands to exit kdbg even though you can't actually see what you're doing. Annelise