From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 19:16:13 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 A8E5E16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E77043D2F for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9D22BD8C for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:16:10 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C0A0E51235; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:46:08 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:46:08 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jorn Argelo Message-ID: <20040422021608.GJ13249@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040419113557.GA74025@wantadilla.lemis.com> <000e01c4260c$69a39dd0$050110ac@frodo64bit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U3s59FfKcByyGl+j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000e01c4260c$69a39dd0$050110ac@frodo64bit> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:16:13 -0000 --U3s59FfKcByyGl+j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text wrapped incorrectly. On Monday, 19 April 2004 at 14:46:57 +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote: > On Monday, 19 April 2004 at 12:56:56 +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote: >> [snip] >>>>> #0 doadump () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:240 >>>>> (kgdb) >>> >>>> You want at least a backtrace. >>> >>> How do I do that? I'm sorry, but I've never done a kernel debug or >>> anything. > >> That's why I pointed you to the documentation explaining what to do: > > Sorry, I didn't see that in your previous mail. Looks like you didn't see this either: > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > I must say your documentation looks very well, though it goes far > above my level. (Wouldn't be too healthy for a 17 year old kid to > do some kernel debugging already, no?) Younger people have done it. Our record for the youngest committer is something like 14. > I currently have a backtrace, a chunk of source code which probably > causes the panic, and some register output. I haven't read all 99 > pages of your documentation, but hopefully it'll be enough. Send me > a mail when you have time, and I'll mail you the contents. (The > source code is quite long, so posting everything in a single mail is > not a good idea). I can drop a mail at the current folks as well, if > you prefer that. Put it on the -questions list for now. It could be instructive. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --U3s59FfKcByyGl+j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhyroIubykFB6QiMRApdlAJ9b41Iy6pbtvJIVgRARy9Q9vlsoFwCeOjLO rRI6xvshVGiYIe0UpY5sqTo= =Zs84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U3s59FfKcByyGl+j--