On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:40:02AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> i just had another panic (vrele: ref cnt, see reports on current-users),
> while running X on my 1.4.1_stable machine with wscons. On the panic, the
> display just froze solid and it took me a couple of seconds to know what's
> going on. Unfortunately, all i was able to do was type "reboot" (boot" b"
> i tried several...) blindly. 
> 
> Would it be able to switch to the console on a panic, please?

To switch consoles, you also need to get the video card out of graphics
mode. Currently, the X server is the only one who knows how to do this,
so you can't do if it's not running (anymore).

I would suggest that you disable DDB, and compile kernels with -g,
so that the problem can be looked at post-mortem using gdb and the
crashdump.

- Frank