From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 21:04:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21915 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21907; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spirit.ki.net (root@spirit.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.6/8.7.5) with ESMTP id AAA01980; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by spirit.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA02003; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:04:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: spirit.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:04:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gary Palmer cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Narrowing down the problems...need help In-Reply-To: <26883.846302437@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID > : > > quagmire# gdb kernel.gdb vmcore.4 > > GDB is free software and you are welcome to 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. > > GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd), > > Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc... > > > > "/var/crash/vmcore.4" is not a core dump: File format not recognized > > (gdb) quit > > WEIRD > > I just got the same, but on a -stable system. :-( > In my case, it was a failure to remember to use 'gdb -k' :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org