Re: Panic Feedback
Re: Panic Feedback
- Subject: Re: Panic Feedback
- From: Umesh Vaishamapayan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:08:43 -0800
On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Umesh Vaishamapayan writes:
Thanks for the feedback. Fortunately you are not the only one who does
not like the current panic UI [I wonder why? :-)] So there is already
Radar tracking the issue of improving the panic UI.
Speaking of the panic UI .. As a new Darwin driver developer coming
from a FreeBSD (and Tru64) background, I've found it incredibly
painful to analyze a panic with only one Darwin system. Are there any
plans to implement either crashdumps for post-mortem debugging
Crashdump like FreeBSD are not possible in Darwin because there is no
swap partition to dup to. We swap to the file system, and in case of a
panic/crash you do not want to write to your file system.
You might want to check Darwin-developer list archives. This has been
discussed at length in the past.
or at
least optionally expose a console interface to ddb so that one can get
a symbolic stack trace (like you can with the ddb in *BSD & Tru64)?
Well, if you build and run DEBUG kernel, you get ddb...
--Umesh