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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:54:48 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Autodumping on panic
Message-ID:  <200703071054.49247.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
References:  <20070302210447.GE2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200703061159.05435.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070307070556.GD2479@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>

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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:05, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> HI, John,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:59:04AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Yes, KDB_UNATTENDED will work, but there is a bug in that the system 
should 
> > not enter DDB when you are in X, it should just drop a dump and then 
reboot.  
> > This used to work but is broken in 5.x and later I believe.  IWBN to get 
this 
> > fixed again.
> 
> I'm lured to consider this as a feature, since it doesn't appear to
> be possible to use DDB when a crash occured while in X.  What am I
> missing here ?

Right now a panic while in X just hangs and doesn't do a dump at all if DDB is 
enabled.  This is a bug, it should notice it can't enter DDB and just skip 
DDB, do a dump, and reboot.  The problem is that it _doesn't_ do the feature.

-- 
John Baldwin



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