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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:24:46 +0200
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Cc:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, nectar@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nss_ldap segmentation fault with RC1 
Message-ID:  <E1ERREc-0004Tw-C6@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:15:01 %2B0100." <20051017091501.GA1499@uk.tiscali.com>

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> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:55:10AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > Attached is one core dump, I don't know what i should do with it ;)
> 
> The _last_ thing to do with a core dump is send it to a mailing list. It's
> completely useless to us, and is absolutely huge. A total waste of bandwidth
> for everyone on the list.
> 
> Howver on your machine you can do:
> 
> # gdb -c whatever.core /path/to/bin/whatever
> 
> and then
> 
>   bt
> 
> to get a backtrace. *That* you can post to a mailing list. You may then get
> requests to print the contents of particular variables.
> 
> Brian.

also, sendig away a kernel core dump will most probably compromise your system!
there might me some nice passwords/private keys/etc ...

danny





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