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Subject: Re: Kernel core dump in recent 4.8-STABLE
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Mark Knight wrote:

> In message <200306232314.02175.dgw@liwest.at>, Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
> writes
> >Today my system coredumped (4.8-STABLE from Saturday), I believe it's somehow
> >X11 related:
> 
> I just updated my system to RELENG_4 from Tuesday morning, and saw a
> crash as X started.  Unfortunately, It was a remote restart, so I had to
> win a race to move xdm out of the way before the system crashed ;)
...
> #8  0xc01bfc3c in spec_ioctl (ap=0xd360edf0)
>     at /usr/src/sys/miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c:306

In this stack frame, could you print the contents of the dev pointer and
structure?  (l dev, l *dev in gdb -k) 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories