On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:54 AM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Probably at least 50% of the time when I work with a user on a bug report, > I ask them to go into kgdb and run specific commands to extract more detailed > info (print some struct, etc.).
Sure, I understand, but you are not working with every user who encounters a kernel panic in FreeBSD. For the average or casual FreeBSD user, such as desktop users of FreeBSD or PC-BSD, wouldn't it be better to have ddb_enable="YES" be the default in FreeBSD? The ddb script there does a fairly reasonable job of gathering some useful info which can be analyzed later, and then rebooting the box. For more expert users, or people developing products, they can set ddb_enable="NO" and do more advanced debugging. Or hook into /etc/rc.d/ddb and define a different ddb script which doesn't do textdumps on kernel panic. -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
