On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > Erm. Did you manage to look at dmesg then? If so, you would have seen > warnings from WITNESS earlier about the locks messing up. If you can > reproduce this and are letting it sit unattended, a better plan might be > to turn on witness_ddb (it's a kernel option, loader tunable, and sysctl > (debug.witness_ddb)) and then when the original error occurs it will > drop into the debugger with a very useful error message. You can also > get a useful trace at that point from ddb.
Word of warning though: either use a serial console, or don't run X, because you'll want to be able to see the debugger, and you probably won't get much warning when it's about to drop in. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message