From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 1 1:48:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fepD.post.tele.dk (fepD.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91C837B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 01:48:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([62.243.18.170]) by fepD.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20020401094817.WOJD24710.fepD.post.tele.dk@there> for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:48:17 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Crashing, how to make a bugreport? Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:48:17 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020401094817.WOJD24710.fepD.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 Hi! I've had some issues with mplayer and FreeBSD for some time now. Usually my FreeBSD-box is quite stable, no problem building world, kernels and various big port. And no issues in daily use. Except for mplayer, which will bring FreeBSD to crash the hard way. I had this problem with an old 4.4-setup running XFree 4.1.x. I have now made a fresh 4.5 install which is upgraded to -STABLE and installed 4.2, KDE 2.2.2 etc.. All went fine and is running smoothly. Ogle, xine etc. runs "fine" aswell. I've even tested the RAM with memtest86, swapping and taking RAM out, no errors. So I just had to test whether the "mplayer bug" had gone away... it hasn't. I'm no hacker but I've tried following the steps in and all I get is this: root:/sys/compile/FRODOKERNEL# 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 Reading symbols from kernel.debug...done. (kgdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.0 (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0 IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x0003fbc0 initial pcb at physical address 0x0035bd60 panic messages: --- dmesg: kvm_read: invalid address (c0354c60) --- #0 0x0 in ?? () (kgdb) where #0 0x0 in ?? () Now, my question is how get more information out of the *.core-files and what do I include into a bugreport (just the above + dmesg)? Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message