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Subject: kern/12508: gdb fails to vmcore.0
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>Number:         12508
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       gdb fails to vmcore.0
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul  4 08:10:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
?
>Environment:

FreeBSD sum.sics.se 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #3: Sun Jul  4 11:37:58 CEST 1999     root@sum.sics.se:/usr/src/sys/compile/SUM  i386

>Description:

gdb seems unable to read the vmcore.0 file produced by savecore

>How-To-Repeat:

<make machine panic>
<type panic in ddb>
<see it dump>
<reboot>

Jul  4 13:03:02 sum savecore: reboot after panic: from debugger
Jul  4 13:03:02 sum savecore: /var/crash/bounds: No such file or directory
Jul  4 13:03:02 sum savecore: writing core to /var/crash/vmcore.0
Jul  4 13:03:22 sum savecore: writing kernel to /var/crash/kernel.0

bash# gdb -k
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".
(kgdb) symbol-file /usr/src/sys/compile/SUM/kernel.gdb
Reading symbols from /usr/src/sys/compile/SUM/kernel.gdb...done.
(kgdb) exec-file kernel.0
(kgdb) core-file vmcore.0
IdlePTD 2859008
kernel symbol `gd_curpcb' not found.

>Fix:

none known yet :(

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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