Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:56:56 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the fs fun never stops Message-ID: <19980921095656.C18812@matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <199809201922.PAA21926@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>; from Bill Paul on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 03:22:50PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9809201209530.3220-100000@echonyc.com> <199809201922.PAA21926@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: > I see people constantly show panic messages like this but rarely do I > see someone take the time to match up the instruction pointer with a > function in the kernel symbol table. > > The best way to track down the cause of a panic is by capturing a crash > dump, then using gdb to to a stack trace on the crash dump. Of course, > this depends on gdb in -current working correctly, which I can't > guarantee (I recall somebody saying that the new ELF-ized gdb didn't > handle kernel crash dumps correctly: somebody should check this before > 3.0 goes out of beta or there'll be a lot of red faces after the CDs > ship). > > In any case, the method I nornally use is this: *** Perhaps all this nice posting should go into FAQ with somewhat modified form ? I can say that all replys I got from Bill are almost anytime very helpful and I learned a lot of things recently by this way. Can anybody pick it up and convert into FAQ, please ? Thanks Bill. Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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