From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 30 11:26:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from purus.tcoip (unknown [200.199.244.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EB137B409; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br (btigx95yplpoh9g1@dcs.intra.tcoip.com.br [192.168.60.194]) by purus.tcoip (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6UINKA14125; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:23:20 -0300 Message-ID: <3B65A618.2050205@tcoip.com.br> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:23:20 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010705 X-Accept-Language: en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Mike Tancsa , Shawn Ramsey , stable@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crashing every two hours! References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010727073615.029e9058@192.168.0.12> <3B61A545.4010803@tcoip.com.br> <20010730173231.D7059@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:30:45PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >>Sure, a developer can understand better and do things like select the >>appropriate frame and display the appropriate variables, but compiling a >>kernel for debug symbols, locating the crash dumps, calling gdb on them >>with symbol table and typing "list" and "bt" helps a lot already, and >>the user can then be further instructed in what to do. >> > > I think we're going to get a "How to submit a good bug report" section > in the Handbook. Is this something you'd be able to contribute to? Heh. Not really. I went searching for the handbook section describing this just last week. :-) If there is any more info than what already is in that section, I don't know about it. Try John Baldwin. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor", stardate 3088.7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message