From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 17:04:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A92616A4DD for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from 209-204-181-78.dsl.static.sonic.net (209-204-181-78.dsl.static.sonic.net [209.204.181.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19C6C43E4B for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 2470 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Aug 2006 17:01:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:01:02 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060829170124.GA1818@lizzy.catnook.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:20:57 +0000 Subject: Retrieving info from panics while in X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jos@catnook.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:04:30 -0000 I was wondering if anybody has any plans to address the issue of retrieving panic/debugging information about crashes happening while X is running. For example, -current has been broken for me for several days now; it will reliably crash within an hour or so while the main thing I'm doing is running Opera under KDE. But without X, no crash. How does one obtain panic information in this situation? -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com