Re: Propose for Several Dump types

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb (bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:41:50 +0000 (UTC)
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

    > In message <cd4370cf04121417446c96319f@mail.gmail.com>, Jun Su writes:
    > >On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:48:44 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp
    > ><phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
    > >> In message <cd4370cf04121323433255da9d@mail.gmail.com>, Jun Su writes:
    > >>
    > >> >MiniDump
    > >> >=======
    > >> >In a minidump, Register info, plus the crash stack is enough.
    > >>
    > >> Make it an EVENTHANDLER() and dump it in ascii format.
    > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    > >Don't think the ascii format is a good choose. We can only dump the
    > >information like the ones we can get in the KDB. My propose is storing
    > >the pages that the stack point is in. Then we can get more useful
    > >stack in the userland with the kernel file and kernel symbol.
    >
    > An ascii format summary is a _great_ format because people can email
    > us it without knowing anything else. We could in fact make it
    > a /etc/rc.conf tunable: "send_panic_reports=YES" and we would
    > receive it in email whenever a crash occured.

    < SCNR >

    let's have a dialog UI to set this knob; sth that might look like this:

     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | |
     | [ ] Do you really want to (automatically) send crash reports? |
     | [ ] Are you sure you really want to send them? |
     | [ ] Please confirm that the crash reports may be mailed out. |
     | [ ] Please confirm that a mail client is installed and working. |
     | [ ] Please confirm that the sender address I will chose is replyable. |
     | [ ] Do you want not to view no details before sending? |
     | [ ] Never ask me these silly questions again - just do it. |
     | [ ] Add note that FreeBSD rocks anyway. |
     | |
     | [ Yes ] [ No ] [ Maybe ] [ Please explain what this all means ] |
     | |
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

    < / SCNR >

    *uups* sorry; what I really meant is:
    if the knob is turned on then write the data to pre-filled send-pr
    understandable text file upon extraction and tell the user sth. like
    the following:

    --- cut ---
    To send a report of the last crashdump to FreeBSD developers please use:
     send-pr -f /var/crash/4305834
    You will be able to review everything before mailing out.
    --- cut ---

    this can then either go to an extra mailing list or and extra gnats
    cateory. 

    -- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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