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Cc: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Repeated UFS panics?
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
> 
>> It would be easier to attach a serial console to the system, even if 
>> it is in the form of a second machine and null modem cable.  The 
>> handbook will hold your had if you want to try setting it up.
> 
> No need for that - I'm running it under VMWare so I can route serial 
> ports between VMs.
> 
> The big problem is that most of the panics happen with cd9660 as the 
> root file system (LiveCD setup) and I'll have to see what I can do with 
> serial ports in this environment. But it's a good idea.
> 


When I get a panic while in X, I can now (recently - this was not true 3 
or 4 months ago) just type "call doadump [enter] reset [enter]" and I'll 
get a crash dump and the system will reboot.  I then analyze the dump 
later.  I can't see the text, but it actually *is* in the debugger (for 
me anyway).  That's how I tracked this dirbad issue down when I saw it 
the first time.

Eric