Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:44:50 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! Message-ID: <19981002124450.H17581@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <19981002201934.C2176@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:19:34PM %2B0930 References: <19981001193321.C12010@pavilion.net> <19981002104659.M24146@freebie.lemis.com> <19981002110648.A17581@pavilion.net> <19981002201934.C2176@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:19:34PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I've followed the instructions in the handbook but with some problems. > > The savecore worked and I've got a kernel.0 and vmcore.0. > > The handbook refers to 'strip -d', and the -d flag doesn't exist. > > The -d flag definitely exists. What happened when you tried it? It > only works on debug kernels, and you haven't said that you built one. > Did you? Not in the elf version it seems. # strip -d /usr/libexec/elf/strip: invalid option -- d If by building a debug kernel you mean 'config -g', then yes I did. > kernel.gdb is not the saved kernel (which will normally have no > symbols), but the symbolized version, which will come from > /sys/compile/KERNELLNAME/kernel. I don't think I've tried this since > the change to ELF, so maybe there's a problem there. I'll try it Real > Soon Now. It does appear to be an ELF problem. :( > We need more documentation on this area. If this doesn't make sense > to you, let me know what you don't understand, and I'll expand. Let's get the ELF problems fixed first, and then we can revise the docs in light of that. I'm happy to review those, but until these compatibility problems are fix there's little point doing it immediately. Thanks, Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager FreeBSD: The power to serve (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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