On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, ter Voorde Informatiesystemen wrote: > In /etc/sysctl.conf I see the following commented line: > > #ddb.panic=0 > > and nothing else about ddb.panic is present there. With other words, > I guess: 'ddb.panic=0' is the default boot time setting and does not > have to be set explicitly. > > I now suppose: on a kernel panic, this system will not drop into ddb > (kind-of waiting for someone to retrieve useful information about > the panic) and is most likely to reboot. Is that correct?
Exactly the opposite: $ sysctl ddb.panic ddb.panic=1 You need to uncomment that line in /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers, David
