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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: no kld in minidumps
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Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 16:26 +0300:
> on 18/08/2006 05:56 Devon H. O'Dell said the following:
> > 
> > Yeah, you have to do some magic to debug KLDs. Basically, you have to
> > figure out where they were loaded by walking the module list, and then
> > tell GDB where to find the TEXT section using add-symbol-file.
> > Instructions for this are available at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-kld.html
> 
> BTW, has anyone contemplated or even done this - some sort of a script
> to automatically add all modules that were loaded at a time of crash ?

look at src/tools/debugscripts which has two different solutions to the
problem...

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