On Monday 21 April 2008 02:17:48 pm Brooks Davis wrote: > brooks 2008-04-21 18:17:48 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > etc/defaults rc.conf > Log: > Change the default of ddb_enable to YES so we default to generating > textdumps on panic. This means you get a potentially useful dump even if > your system is running X when you panic.
Note that for many panics (such as page faults due to a NULL pointer dereference) the enhanced stack handling ability of kgdb (ability to examine local variables in stack frames, etc.) is a lot more useful than ddb and now those panics won't be nearly as easy to debug via textdumps. As far as panics in X are concerned, that is a bug in the console driver that it doesn't just abort ddb already and write out a dump and reboot. I've been disabling ddb on panics via tunable as a workaround on my laptop to get crashdumps during panics in X. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
