Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: need interpretation of panic message? Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <3078@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 13 Nov 89 13:34:13 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Related: v8n161 v8n167 v8n177 v8n180 v8n185 v8n187 v8n189 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 198, message 10 of 18 I see a large number of postings in various vendor-specific groups and unix-wizards asking substantially the same question: What is a panic ? What does this traceback point at? What I don't see is anyone posting or publishing a general answer, either as a table of panics or as a technique using the kernel name- space maps. I look panics up in the Lyons book, circa v6!. (I generally ignore mysterious tracebacks as my preferred/only technique is to use adb on the core file, and I get tracebacks **only** when I'm not saving core files...). Would Sun or a consortium of wizards consider publishing a collection of folklore about panics? Or shall we just start archiving the answers as they go by (:-)). David Collier-Brown, | davecb@yunexus, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave Willowdale, Ontario, | Joyce C-B: CANADA. 416-223-8968 | He's so smart he's dumb.