On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:28:30 -0800 Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 15:00, David Demelier wrote: > > In any case, when panic occurs, switching display to the tty can be > > great. Why not a sysctl like kern.tty_on_panic? Because when you're > > running X and a panic occurs not everybody understand what happens. > > Putting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf can help: > > debug.debugger_on_panic=0 > > The reason being that sometimes when you panic in X the system is > attempting to drop to the debugger, but can't, which is why it hangs. > For what it's worth this appears to be the default on -current. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ 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"
