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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 23:43:12 +0100
From:      "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>
To:        "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gdb -k & Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? 
Message-ID:  <01bea6ff$f8639660$0101a8c0@greg>

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Nope that didn't work.... the kernel.0 your referring to will not have any
debug code.... but kernel.debug should. Yet that didn't work either.

# cd /var/crash
# ls
bounds          kernel.0        vmcore.0

# gdb -k kernel.0 --core vmcore.0
GNU gdb 4.18
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
kernel symbol `SMP_prvspace' not found.
(kgdb) where
No stack.
(kgdb) q


# ls -l
total 132849
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          2 May 25 13:14 bounds
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    1733154 May 25 09:43 kernel.0
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  134217728 May 25 09:43 vmcore.0

# cd /usr/src/sys/compile/dns1
# ls -l kernel.debug
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8452403 May 24 06:19 kernel.debug

I installed the kernel as follows:

cp kernel kernel.debug
strip -g kernel
make install


Greg



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