From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 19:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4943614DF6 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com) Received: from ENERGIZER (energizer.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.106]) by poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (8.9.3/8.9.0/1.0-bcg) with SMTP id WAA08625 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <011201bf15ec$2d177380$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> From: "Ben Goodwin" To: Subject: Fw: 3.3R box crashing; need help debugging the crash Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:31:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, since this didn't work. Who can I contact to help me out with this? -=| Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Goodwin" To: "Sheldon Hearn" Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 1:23 AM Subject: Re: 3.3R box crashing; need help debugging the crash > > Cool, perhaps if you provide some interesting information, someone > > _else_ will know how to interpret it. :-) > > Indeed that's what I'm looking to have done .. > > > First, we make some assumptions here: > > > > 1) When you configured your kernel, you did ``config -g'' for debugging > > support. > > Yes. > > > 2) Hopefully, your crash isn't happening inside a kld. That's icky. For > > this situation, try to limit the number of kld's you use. > > I don't think I'm using any.. I have a perty basic config going here .. > > > gdb -k /path/to/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 > > > > Gdb should tell you about the panic. You can then issue the command > > ``back'' at the GDB prompt to get a backtrace. Then cut'n'paste > > everything that follows the gdb copyright notice. :-) > > Ok.. I've gotten to this point on my own .. so I'll cut-n-paste the results [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message