From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 00:15:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA23883 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA23843 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10221; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:13:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA20967; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:13:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA26285; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:55:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604240655.IAA26285@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:55:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 23, 96 09:48:43 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: (Please, restrict this to one list.) > > 8. Compile a kernel with kgdb so that when the system crashes you > > can hopefelly pop into the debugger and send us a stack trace. > > > I have the kernel compiled with DDB & DODUMP enabled, so that DODUMP is gone. Use dumpon(8) instead, or kernel root on ... swap on ... dumps on ... if you wanna get dumps before /etc/rc has been running. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)