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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 01:58:08 +0400
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb -k & Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? 
Message-ID:  <199905262158.BAA01697@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 09:59:21 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905260958510.518-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I typically just install the debug kernel, so that all the kernels in 
> > the dump area contain debug symbols.
> > 
> > > # 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
> > 
> > Weird.  I can only wonder if there's a problem with dumps taken on SMP 
> > systems; everything else ought to work.  You might want to poke Doug 
> > Rabson just in case something broke in the recent gdb changes.
> 
> I think Dmitrij has just fixed my mistake.

Actually, that was Luoqi who fixed it. (I just wanted to answer the 
question).

Dima




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