Bug #6943
closed
Textdumps are not working on 2.4 (No DDB)
Added by Jim Pingle about 8 years ago.
Updated about 8 years ago.
Category:
Operating System
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.
- Status changed from Confirmed to Feedback
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
option DDB added to pfSense kernel
- 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.
- Status changed from Confirmed to Feedback
- 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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