kernel panic on em0/taskq

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:34:41PM +0200, Daniel Ponticello wrote:
> Hello,
> i'm experiencing periodic kernel panics on a server with  FreeBSD 
> 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue May 20 19:09:43 CEST 2008.
> My big problem is that the system is not performing memory dumping and/or 
> automatic reoboot,
> it just stays there.

Try adjusting some of these sysctl values:

hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
hw.acpi.handle_reboot

You're using VMware, which may or may not behave properly anyways.

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