Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:45:06 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem with kgdb and modules. (k)gdb expert needed. Message-ID: <4F2F2292.4000909@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4F2E628D.8050101@FreeBSD.org> References: <4F2CE485.5020909@freebsd.org> <4F2E36B5.3010308@freebsd.org> <4F2E628D.8050101@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2/5/12 3:05 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 05/02/2012 09:58 Julian Elischer said the following: >> In 9.x ( can't check -current, but teh mailing list has a better readership) >> >> I'm still seeing this and have still not found any solution: >> possible reasons for the change may be: >> 1/ change to kgdb? >> 2/ change to the compiling toolset? >> 3/ change to the .mk files for compiling modules? >> >> any guidance would be appreciated.. >> The reason I can get away with using FreeBSD ar work is because I can debug >> modules well >> as in Linux this is generally a problem.. Now I see similar breakage in >> freebsd. (sigh)). >> >> I really don't know where to start looking for this.. > Julian, > > just in case, how about some basic stuff like checking that the modules are > indeed built with debugging support, that .symbols are installed and are > accessible, that kgdb produces those messages: "Reading symbols", "Loaded symbols". > it seems to have been some timing issue. the scripts that ran in 8.x fail to load the symbols in 9.x but if I do the commands again by hand, it does load them.. so it seems to be a false alarm
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