From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 11:02:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B099116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (node-c-0ab6.a2000.nl [62.194.10.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F345543D54 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from [172.16.1.2] (unknown [172.16.1.2]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB33917067 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:02:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Jorn Argelo To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:01:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404182001.46732.jorn@wcborstel.nl> Subject: Kernel debugging question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:02:44 -0000 Hey folks, I've been trying to debug my kernel. I've successfully extracted a kernel dump as described in the development handbook. However, as soon as I come across this step, I don't know how to continue: # cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNCONF # gdb -k /boot/kernel/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 The problem is, kernel.debug doesn't exist at all. I did an locate.updatedb as root and try to find it then, but I still couldn't find it. Hopefully somebody can point me into the right direction (I used http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html) Thanks in advance, Jorn