Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!matrox!zap!fortin From: fortin@zap.uucp (Denis Fortin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Using dbx to panic kernel Message-ID: <1991Apr21.071247.2472@zap.uucp> Date: 21 Apr 91 07:12:47 GMT References: Organization: zap, Montreal Lines: 27 In larry@mitra.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) writes: >It seems to be quite simple to panic Ultrix 4.1 on a DEC station 5000 >using dbx. >Dbx a process that does an accept(). While your process is blocked on >the accept() call, type ^C to terminate the process. Dbx responds >telling you your process has terminated, now quit dbx. Voila, panic. >This may be something peculiar to our system, but over the course of >the last few days we have done this 5 or 6 times with consistant >results. Arrrrrgh! This is *not* peculiar to your system. We have been experiencing the same problem on our DECsystem 3100s running Ultrix 4.0! (and 3.x before that). It has gotten to the point that we tell our developpers to "use printfs instead of using dbx" (!). Sigh... Any workaround for this problem would be greatly appreciated. -- Denis Fortin, DMR Group Inc, (514) 877-3301 (All of these opinions are my own) fortin@zap.uucp uunet!sobeco!zap!fortin fortin%zap@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu