Added by Jim Pingle almost 10 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.
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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.
option DDB added to pfSense kernel
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.
Applied in changeset commit:0529323ff97f81e0203553086df8917aeb5542d3.
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. commit:c945d7a5bc27a3d770bc66217dafb44f372cda83
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