On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Even make -j1 buildworld with the SMP kernel ends with a complete freeze > of the machine (the kernel does not go to a panic where I could try a > backtrace)
I've seen several reports that using a serial break to get into ddb is now quite a bit more reliable than a keyboard break. If you're not already using a serial console, you might want to give it a try (make sure to turn on BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and/or ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message