On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 01:49:26PM -0500, Brennan Vincent wrote:
> I’m using the latest version of `nvidia-driver` from ports (440.31). Is that 
> considered a DRM driver?

No, my suggestion doesn't apply to your case then.

When you tested debug.kdb.panic=1, did you have a graphical desktop
running?  When you have debugger_on_panic set to 0, do you notice a hang
before the system reboots, or does the system reboot immediately?

> > On Nov 5, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Mark Johnston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 12:44:06PM -0500, Brennan Vincent wrote:
> >> (Note: I have also posted this to the forums, but upon reading the forum 
> >> guidelines more carefully I realized the mailing list is probably a better 
> >> venue. So if you are also a forum reader, I apologize for the extra churn.)
> >> 
> >> Hello, I am running 13-CURRENT (compiled recently from source using 
> >> default build settings) and recently I have been kernel panics every so 
> >> often. They can happen at any time but seem to be more likely when the 
> >> system is running a graphical environment and is at high load (e.g., 
> >> during `make -j64 buildworld`).
> >> 
> >> I have configured my system to collect core dumps: my swap partition is 50 
> >> GB (large enough to contain any conceivable minidump), `dumpon` reports 
> >> that it is indeed configured as a dump partition, and I have 
> >> `savecore_enable="YES"` in /etc/rc.conf. I also have the sysctl 
> >> `debug.debugger_on_panic` set to 0, which seems to be necessary for core 
> >> dumps to happen (instead of breaking into the debugger on panic). Before, 
> >> when that sysctl was set to 1, my graphical environment would hand; now it 
> >> reboots. The changing behavior depending on the value of 
> >> `debug.debugger_on_panic` is what makes me think this really is a kernel 
> >> panic, as opposed to some other possible issue that could cause a crash.
> >> 
> >> The weird thing is that when I manually cause a panic via `sudo sysctl 
> >> debug.kdb.panic=1` , my system reboots as expected, and a core dump 
> >> **does** get generated and saved in /var/crash! So it's only the 
> >> mysterious random crashes that aren't causing core dumps.
> >> 
> >> Can anyone help me figure out why core dumps are not getting generated, 
> >> and how I can possibly debug what is going on?
> > 
> > Are you using one of the DRM graphics drivers?  I've found that setting
> > dev.drm.skip_ddb="1" in loader.conf is sometimes necessary.
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