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Date:      Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Crash dumps on current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020709124706.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020709.100217.71087662.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On 09-Jul-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 9:58am hammer:/dell/crash[52]> sudo gdb -k *.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"...
> 
> "/dell/crash/info.2": not in executable format: File format not recognized
> 
> 
> kgdb could not open the exec-file, please check the name you used !
> (kgdb) quit
> 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.
> 
> 
> kernel symbol `cpuhead' not found.
> (kgdb) quit
> 
> Needless to say, I'm somewhat frustrated as to what to do.  Ideas?

If you still want to use gdb 4.18, you have to build your kernel with
DEBUG=-gstabs+ or some such.  Either that or use gdb52 from ports or
from a more recent system with your kernel and dump.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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