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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:06:14 +0100
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: force panic of remote server ... possible?
Message-ID:  <1151323574.80434.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060626085321.T1114@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060626085321.T1114@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out 
> that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled, 
> is there some way of forcing it to panic when I know I actually have the 
> deadlock, so that it will dump a core?

You cen enter the debugger by setting the (badly names) debug.kdb.enter
sysctl to 1, although I can't guarantee that'll trigger a dump and
reboot.  Do you have a serial console?

Gavin





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