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Date:      Fri, 7 Feb 1997 00:56:33 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to find where system hanging?
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970207005633.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199702062302.PAA04566@george.lbl.gov>; from Jin Guojun[ITG] on Feb 6, 1997 15:02:39 -0800
References:  <199702062302.PAA04566@george.lbl.gov>

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As Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:

> Is there any way to force coredump when the system is hanging?
> Or is there a mechanism to trace where it is hanging.

Configure DDB, and see whether the hotkey will still work.  If it
doesn't, it's probably jamming the system with interrupts disabled.
(You could hook a pushbutton to the IOCHCK signal on the ISA bus,
which will generate an NMI.  That should be a condition fatal enough
to go into DDB.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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