On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Glen Barber<glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I have a two-part question:
>
> I have a minimally customized GENERIC kernel, with the only changes being:
> options         KDB
> options         KDB_UNATTENDED
> options         DDB
>
> and 'sysctl debug.debugger_on_panic' shows:
> debug.debugger_on_panic: 0
>
> However, after a panic loading the vboxdrv.ko module, the machine did
> not reboot automatically after reboot.

I meant "automatically after panic".  It's early, and I am apparently
unable to type a coherent thought...

>
> Here are my questions:
> 1)  Would enabling DDB in the kernel prevent an automatic reboot after a 
> panic?
>
> 2)  Does the debugger wait for XX seconds of console inactivity before
> rebooting?  I was under the impression from the handbook that the
> machine would instantly reboot and after dumping the crash to vmcore0.
>  Is this assumption incorrect?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
>

Also, if this is helpful, the userland / kernel are from two days ago, r193481:

FreeBSD orion 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0 r193481: Fri Jun  5
01:55:06 EDT 2009     r...@orion:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ORION  i386


-- 
Glen Barber
http://www.dev-urandom.com
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