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Date:      Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:39:04 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        jos@catnook.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Retrieving info from panics while in X
Message-ID:  <1157114344.19335.14.camel@mayday.esat.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060829170124.GA1818@lizzy.catnook.local>
References:  <20060829170124.GA1818@lizzy.catnook.local>

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On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:01 -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has any plans to address the issue of retrievi=
ng
> panic/debugging information about crashes happening while X is running.
>=20
> For example, -current has been broken for me for several days now; it wil=
l
> reliably crash within an hour or so while the main thing I'm doing is run=
ning
> Opera under KDE. But without X, no crash. How does one obtain panic
> information in this situation?

Connect your machine to another one with a null-modem cable. Turn the
console on in /etc/ttys on your -CURRENT machine (ttyd0 line). Then use
"tip com1" on the other machine.

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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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