Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-18 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, OK. I figured out how to get my blog stuff working in English, so you can also read about the modified mdb on my blog, http://mbruning.blogspot.com/ max This is very nice! I didn't know you had all this info, very cool stuff. -- Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you know about the snooping flag and deadman timer. This can be useful in getting a dump when the system is hard hung (i.e., you may or may not have kmdb loaded, but you can't get in). Recentely I've had a system

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:49:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Much better is to add an option to abort_sequence_enter() to panic instead of drop into the debugger. That way you wouldn't even need kmdb. Of course, the option would imply

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, OK. I figured out how to get my blog stuff working in English, so you can also read about the modified mdb on my blog, http://mbruning.blogspot.com/ max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have modified mdb so that I can use ::print type with a raw disk. You can read this:

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, OK. I figured out how to get my blog stuff working in English, so you can also read about the modified mdb on my blog, http://mbruning.blogspot.com/ Well, let me take your use your work on mdb as a cause for thoughts on kmdb usability on

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, OK. I figured out how to get my blog stuff working in English, so you can also read about the modified mdb on my blog, http://mbruning.blogspot.com/ Well, let me take your use your work on mdb as a cause

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: If you do not own a x86 system that itself implements remote administration, you need to run Solaris x86 permanently under kmdb. This is because the only way to abort a hung x86 system is to send a

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:14:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think better is a flag that says that when the system panics, bypass kmdb and go immediately to the dump code. Right. And I think this should be the default behaviour. I mostly use kmdb for analyzing hangs, not

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:49:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Much better is to add an option to abort_sequence_enter() to panic instead of drop into the debugger. That way you wouldn't even need kmdb. Of course, the option would imply nopanicdebug=1. Thank you for this hint. It