Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:24:14 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDB broken? Message-ID: <20040416072414.GJ688@loge.nixsys.be> In-Reply-To: <200404161447.29595.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200404161447.29595.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On 2004-04-16 14:47:29 (+0930), Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> I was helping someone test patches in -current and got a crash dump, but GDB
> doesn't like reading it..
I've also seen this happen a few times in the past.
> [inchoate 14:45] /var/crash >sudo gdb -k /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.1
> GNU gdb 5.2.1 (FreeBSD)
Did you make that core by calling doadump, or by calling panic in the
debugger? I found that GDB will happily eat plain panic cores, but doesn't
appear to like doadump cores. I've only tested with two corefiles though, so
I might be wrong. Anyone else care to test?
- Philip
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