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From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: page fault 
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:47:07 -0500 (CDT)
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J Wunsch wrote:
> As Paul Saab wrote:
> 
> >   My question is without debugging
> > symbols it is not possible to find out what caused the crash is
> > it?
> 
> Even without debugging symbols, the kernel usually has the default
> symbol table, so you could find out in which function it happened.  My
> normal way of analyzation is then to recompile parts of the kernel
> (the interesting parts according to the stacktrace) with -g, and have
> a closer look at them.  Fortunately, gcc usually produces the same
> code with or without -g, provided the -O etc. flags remain the same.
> 
> Hava a look at the section about kernel debugging in the handbook.

Ok.. here is what I got...

IdlePTD 21c000
current pcb at 1f16a4
panic: page fault
#0  0xf0113b83 in boot ()
(kgdb) where
#0  0xf0113b83 in boot ()
#1  0xf0113e42 in panic ()
#2  0xf01bffc6 in trap_fatal ()
#3  0xf01bfab4 in trap_pfault ()
#4  0xf01bf78f in trap ()
#5  0xf015a48f in tcp_ctlinput ()
#6  0xf01537aa in icmp_input ()
#7  0xf01542fe in ip_input ()
#8  0xf0154374 in ipintr ()

What does this mean?

Paul