Subject: Re: ddb sync ... panic: lockmgr: locking against myself
To: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/11/2006 10:24:47
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:45:02AM +0200, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While playing with SVN head ScummVM emulator, i'm experiencing kernel
> panics. This is on my i386 laptop running -current 4.99.1, and this
> host is currently missing a serial port ... no remote console.
> 
> The problem is that blindly typing `sync', from X, does not do
> anything. I have to issue it twice to get the expected kernel core
> file. The first call seems to produce another panic (panic: lockmgr:
> locking against myself) which hide the real problem ...
> 
> Any hint to get around this problem ?

reboot 0x104

please do also "bt/l" before to save the backtrace.

Or you can use sysctl -w ddb.tee_msgbuf=1.

Pavel