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Subject: Re: problem with kgdb and modules.  (k)gdb expert needed.
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On 2/5/12 3:05 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 05/02/2012 09:58 Julian Elischer said the following:
>> In 9.x ( can't check -current, but teh mailing list has a better readership)
>>
>> I'm still seeing this and have still not found any solution:
>> possible reasons for the change may be:
>> 1/ change to kgdb?
>> 2/ change to the compiling toolset?
>> 3/ change to the .mk files for compiling modules?
>>
>> any guidance would be appreciated..
>> The reason I can get away with using FreeBSD ar work is because I can debug
>> modules well
>> as in Linux this is generally a problem.. Now I see similar breakage in
>> freebsd.  (sigh)).
>>
>> I really don't know where to start looking for this..
> Julian,
>
> just in case, how about some basic stuff like checking that the modules are
> indeed built with debugging support, that .symbols are installed and are
> accessible, that kgdb produces those messages: "Reading symbols", "Loaded symbols".
>
it seems to have been some timing issue.
the scripts that ran in 8.x fail to load the symbols in 9.x but if I 
do the commands again by hand,
it does load them..

so it seems to be a false alarm