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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:15:54 +0200
From: Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>
To: Mipam <mipam@ux11.ltcm.net>
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Subject: Re: Debug question
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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Mipam wrote:
> My swap is large enough to cover the whole memory and more so it should be 
> okay. However, "gdb kernel vmcore.0" tells me that vmcore.0 is not a core 
> dump.... :-(

Try 'kgdb kernel -c vmcore.0'; more information can be found in the
handbook, most notabilty:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html

Regards,

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