Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:38:47 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: emb@herman.tiac.net, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New Kernel, pppd crashing system. Message-ID: <199503241638.CAA26032@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>It's in an infinite loop. If you had hit Ctl-Alt-Esc to get into the >debugger, the `tr[ace]' command would have told you that you were in >rn_walktree_from(). From there, you could have said `panic', which >would put you back into the debugger, and then `cont' to take a crash >dump. (Unfortunately, GDB for some reason would not have seen the >rn_walktree_from() stack frame.) I think `panic' gets done in debugger context. gcc doesn't understand the debugger trap frame. `call panic' might work better. If it doesn't then you can set $eip to somewhere that pushes suitable args and calls `panic'. Bruce
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