From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 1:23:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A383737B400 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16Rrht-0003qE-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:22:37 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.80.227.190]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16Rrho-0LEcASC; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:22:32 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0J9MmX70494; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:22:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200201190922.g0J9MmX70494@peedub.jennejohn.org> To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmcore problem Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:50:06 PST." <20020118205005.A65744@cpl.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:22:48 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey writes: > Can anyone tell me why gdb is giving this error? Here is the output : > > (gdb) symbol-file kernel.debug > Reading symbols from kernel.debug...done. > (gdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.0 > (gdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0 > "/var/crash/vmcore.0" is not a core dump: File format not recognized > You have to start gdb with the -k flag, otherwise it can't grok crashdumps. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message