Hi there,
At first, I would like to apologize for the possibility that this e-mail
message might fatigue you, but I just want to be sure.
I would like to know if my machine automatically reboots at a kernel
panic (if it's not failing too much because of malfunctioning hardware,
etc., ofcourse) by default, or if it will not.
The machine is an i386 running OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 and had a
default cd install with no additional manual compile options set. It
only has two users and sshd configured, so I didn't touch anything else.
Pretty default.
In /etc/sysctl.conf I see the following commented line:
#ddb.panic=0
and nothing else about ddb.panic is present there. With other words, I
guess: 'ddb.panic=0' is the default boot time setting and does not have
to be set explicitly.
I now suppose: on a kernel panic, this system will not drop into ddb
(kind-of waiting for someone to retrieve useful information about the
panic) and is most likely to reboot. Is that correct?
Kind regards,
Frank ter Voorde
