Hi
Occasionally, (once a month in 25 openbsd systems,) I get a kernel panic.
(I know I should try to debug the problem, but the systems are too hard
to access and I do not have the time)
But it would be great if those systems would reboot on panic and
therefore I entered ddb.panic=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf.
Now in case of a panic, my systems indeed try to reboot, but they stop
showing the line:
syncing disks...
The strange thing is that just hitting [enter] syncing disks continue
and the server reboots.
I think that that is a simple bug, for it should not be neccessary to
hit enter.
To my regret I cannot reproduce the situation. I have also searched
everywhere to find a way to trigger a panic, to see if I could reproduce
it, but I failed in that as well.
I see that dbb can boot with different options. I have the impression
that the server after a panic is rebooted with ´boot sync´. It would be
convenient if somehow it would be possible to configure the system to
boot with the option ´boot reboot´ to circumvent the syncing disks
problem. (It would be less ideal but acceptable.)
The more so since I read in the 6.5 Changelog:
Modified the ddb(4) reboot command to skip anything which might cause an
additional panic. :)
with kind regards
Johan
