Re: I think I just got a panic

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :maybe we should add an emergency video and keyboard reset to panic(). I 
> :think that's a better way than trying to guess what video mode is 
> :running and adopt to that (or such), like other operating systems try 
> :to do (linux). we could even make a pinkscreen! (or redscreen, or 
> :bluescreen!)
> :
> :cheers
> :   simon
>
>     Unfortunately that might be difficult, because only X really knows how
>     to properly reset the video, and only X really knows how to render to
>     the frame buffer.  We could attempt to make the appropriate video BIOS
>     calls but it's a toss-up whether they would actually work.
>
> 						-Matt

I think you lost me there :-) I woke up this morning and it had done the 
buildworld/kernel without a panic, with X running in the background. 
Should I installworld and just hope it was a bug that was maybe fixed 
between the September ISO snapshot and STABLE?

I will play about and try to get a grip with debugging kernels when I 
get home, incase I experience any other panics.