From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 5:55:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fepF.post.tele.dk (fepF.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B092E37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there ([62.243.124.243]) by fepF.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011018125533.OPYG1982.fepF.post.tele.dk@there> for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:55:33 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-KMail-Redirect-From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Subject: spontaneous crashes with STABLE From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen (by way of Bjarne Wichmann Petersen ) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:58:13 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011018125533.OPYG1982.fepF.post.tele.dk@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The last week I have had several spontaneous crashes. So I've followed some advice (compiling the kernel with 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' and activating savecore). Now, I've got some core-images, but since I'm not a programmer I really don't know what to do with them. Tried following some of the steps outlined in developers-handbook but I just got some errors, eg.: root:/sys/compile/MEKANIX$ gdb -k GNU gdb 4.18 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". (kgdb) symbol-file kernel.debug kernel.debug: No such file or directory. (kgdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.0 (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0 kernel symbol `IdlePTD' not found. and this: root:/sys/compile/MEKANIX$ gdb -k kernel /var/crash/kernel.0 GNU gdb 4.18 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"...(no debugging symbols found)... IdlePTD 1818979945 initial pcb at 4035e0 panic messages: --- dmesg: cannot read PTD --- #0 0x0 in ?? () Bjarne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message