I am sorry, this confused me, and i didn't quite understand. Just to be clear:
ddb.panic=0 will boot instead of dropping you into a ddb? Or is it ddb.panic=1 the option that will make the system boot? Regards, David Coppa wrote: > 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
