From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 24 13: 2:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.communityconnect.com (mail.communityconnect.com [209.10.169.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CE337B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marius@mail.communityconnect.com) Received: from amavis by mail.communityconnect.com with scanned-ok (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14s90v-0006tf-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:02:21 -0400 Received: from [206.28.215.90] (helo=dt-9-45.hq.communityconnect.com) by mail.communityconnect.com with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14s90t-0006qe-00; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:02:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Marius X-Sender: marius@utterlux.hq.communitconnect.com To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random (?) kernel panics In-Reply-To: <20010424154125.E13315-100000@zeus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wait, this is almost a dream for me. Let me try: 1.Make sure you have debugging symbols compiled into the app that dumps 2. run gdb -k kernel.3 vmcore.3 3. in gbd enter 'bt' That should produce a backtrace. (List may correct me if I am wrong.) -Marius M. Rex Community Connect Inc. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Showing us a backtrace at this point would be really helpful. > > Gladly. Um... Where's the manual that I need to RTFM? I'll > check the handbook, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. I'm > really new to gdb. I just know one "incantation" that someone in IRC once > taught me. I am basically a newbie on kernel debugging. Like I said, > I'll go check the handbook, but any pointers or explanations would be > appreciated, too. :) > > TIA, > Jaime > > -- > Network Administrator > Cairo-Durham Central School District > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message