Subject: Re: 1.6.1 hard crash
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/2003 10:54:04
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:20:19PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
>David Maxwell <david@crlf.net> wrote:
> > This will do what you want.
> >
> > echo "ddb.onpanic=0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> > sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=0
> In my experience, it prevent falling on DDB with panic, but non-panic
> kernel trap will still go down DDB.
I imagine it's still possible, but in theory at least, this PR seems to
indicate that Assar's change will prevent DDB from showing up with this
sysctl set to 0.
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=5222
Of course, if it is a problem still, DDB can be compiled out of the
kernel.
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