On 1/20/13 6:07 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 17-1-2013 4:18, Ian Lepore wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 23:27 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote: >>> Thank you for your response, very helpful. >>> one question - how do i configure auto-reboot once kernel panic occurs? >>> >>> Sami >>> >> >> From src/sys/conf/NOTES, this may be what you're looking for... >> >> # >> # Don't enter the debugger for a panic. Intended for unattended operation >> # where you may want to enter the debugger from the console, but still want >> # the machine to recover from a panic. >> # >> options KDB_UNATTENDED >> >> But I think it only has meaning if you have option KDB in effect, >> otherwise it should just reboot itself after a 15 second pause. > > Well it is not the magical fix-all solution. > > Last night I had to drive to the colo (lucky for me a 5 min drive.) > because I could not get a system to reboot/recover from a crash. > > Upon arrival the system was crashed and halted on the message: > rebooting in 15 sec. >
I've seen the same thing many and many times. Now I'm using ddb to save crash dump and reboot machine on panic. It's much more reliable. -- Andrey Zonov
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