From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 22 5:15: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851C014E15; Sat, 22 May 1999 05:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id IAA19525; Sat, 22 May 1999 08:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma019518; Sat, 22 May 99 08:14:42 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 08:14:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Re: Finally (Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot) In-reply-to: <19990521220144.C78275@nuxi.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Greg Quinlan , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 May 1999, David O'Brien wrote: [ stuff about configuring a kernel with -g and setting dump deleted ] > > Then the next time you have a panic, the information necessary to debug > the problem wil be available. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) Sorry for the (silly?) question, but what next? I've done all of this, and am still clueless as to how to access/analyze/whatever a crashdump when something happens. Right now I just drop into the debugger on panic/fault, with no idea what to do next. I usually just type "panic" and the machine seems to reboot. (I've read the ddb manpage, not even sure whether it's the right thing to read, as the "panic" command isn't documented there.) Is there a tutorial on how to analyze crashdumps? If not, would someone familiar with the process please share his/her knowledge? The next time something bad happens, I'd like to post with some meaningful information and avoid the "you haven't given us enough information" speeches. Thanks. SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message