From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 9 9:21: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AA537B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75CF43E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g69GKqQQ032889; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:20:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:20:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash dumps on current Message-ID: <20020709162052.GC20718@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020709.100217.71087662.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709.100217.71087662.imp@bsdimp.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 09), M. Warner Losh said: > OK. How the ***** do I get a *!@#$@$#% crash dump on current? I > did a dumpon to enable the dumping, which appeared to work. I then > did a savecore after the system came back up (but before any swapping > happened) and that seemed to work. I then tried to use gdb to read > the core dump and got the following: > > sudo gdb -k ~/FreeBSD/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC/kernel.debug vmcore.2 > GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) > Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...Deprecated bfd_read called at /dell/imp/FreeBSD/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/dwarf2read.c line 3049 in dwarf2_read_section > > > Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader. Don't you need to use gdb52 -k now, since the new GCC was turned on? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message