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Thanks, when i do what you suggested i get: kgdb: bad namelist.
Is the corefile unusuable?
Regards,

Mipam.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Rink Springer wrote:

> 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,
> 
> -- 
> Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
> "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing,
>  to admit it."                                    - Darth Traya
>