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Bug #6943

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Textdumps are not working on 2.4 (No DDB)

Added by Jim Pingle over 7 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Renato Botelho
Category:
Operating System
Target version:
2.4.0
Start date:
11/18/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.4
Affected Architecture:
amd64

Description

The amd64 kernel in 2.4 does not contain "options DDB" so textdumps are not working. It does have "options KDB", but not DDB.

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 #1

Updated by Renato Botelho over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

option DDB added to pfSense kernel

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 #2

Updated by Jim Pingle over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Confirmed

DDB is there now but something still isn't triggering textdumps. 2.4 has a different /etc/ddb.conf file from the one on 2.3, but even loading that one on wasn't enough, it's still doing vmcores and not textdumps.

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 #3

Updated by Renato Botelho over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Feedback
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 #4

Updated by Jim Pingle over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

That worked, thanks!

I did make one small tweak. Before, we used kdb.enter.default rather than kdb.enter.panic as using only .panic could result in some crashes failing to a debugger prompt without rebooting. This way it'll take a textdump no matter what triggers the debugger, rather than potentially halting the firewall without a means of remote recovery. c945d7a5bc27a3d770bc66217dafb44f372cda83

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