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Date:      Thu, 1 May 2008 15:59:00 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <200805011559.00415.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080501145315.4ec8170c@kan.dnsalias.net>
References:  <200804211817.m3LIHm97031507@repoman.freebsd.org> <200805011036.16663.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080501145315.4ec8170c@kan.dnsalias.net>

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On Thursday 01 May 2008 02:53:15 pm Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:36:15 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 07:44:37 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > As far as panics in X are concerned, that is a bug in the console
> > > > driver that it doesn't just abort ddb already and write out a dump
> > > > and reboot.  I've been disabling ddb on panics via tunable as a
> > > > workaround on my laptop to get crashdumps during panics in X.
> > >
> > > How hard would this be to fix properly? :)
> > 
> > Not sure.  db_trap() calls 'cnunavailable()' and perhaps that isn't
> > working correctly now?
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Baldwin
> cnunavailable will not prevent DDB as long as you have any console that
> DDB can interact with enabled. Firewire/serial consoles are considered
> to be always available, if configured.

Yeah, but my laptop only has vidconsole and it hangs during a panic in X 
unless I turn off 'debugger_on_panic'.

-- 
John Baldwin



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