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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Crash using GDB
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:30:01PM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
> Upgraded FreeBSD to 6.0 Release.
> Upgraded Gnome to 2.12, Abiword 2.4.1
> 
> Abiword is crashes while trying to save files for some unknown reason so
> I recompiled it WITH_DEBUG=YES.
> 
> Open abiword from command line (abiword &) and attach and GDB process to
> the abiword process.
> 
> Click "Save" in Abiword, which usually crashes Abiword but with GDB
> attached the kernel panics and reboots immediately.
> 
> I'm not really sure what to do now but I can reproduce the crash every
> time.

Try running AbiWord using another computer as your X server, and
make the FreeBSD 6 machine stay at the console so it can potentially
hit DDB/KDB.  A serial console is also helpful sometimes.

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