From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 5 12:50:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from portnoy.lbl.gov (portnoy.lbl.gov [131.243.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E451D37BC24 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@portnoy.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov () id MAA28377; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) Message-Id: <200005051950.MAA28377@george.lbl.gov> To: bright@wintelcom.net Subject: Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Alfred Perlstein [000505 12:21] wrote: > > * Jin Guojun [000505 12:03] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have > > > compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. > > > > > > How can I make a hanging kernel into DDB? Will grounding the NMI do it? > > > > > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > > > That's a bit extreme. > > > > hit ctrl+alt+esc on the console, or send a serial break if using > > a serial console, make sure you have BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER if you're > > using a serial console. > > Forgot to mention that an NMI will also work. > > -Alfred In a normal operation, both work well. When system hangs, neither of them works. It looks that system is in some wiered status. Does any one happen to know how to trace this kind of problem? -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message