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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:39:53 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Generating backtrace from kernel panic 
Message-ID:  <199808211939.TAA11954@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:18:58 GMT." <199808211519.QAA01819@indigo.ie> 

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> A 2.2.7-RELEASE machine recently paniced on me, I had dumpon/savecore
> enabled but hadn't built the kernel with debugging symbols, so I rm'd
> *.o in compile, added -g to COPTFLAGS and remade the kernel, but I
> still can't get a backtrace:

If you still have the old kernel, it would be more useful just to use 
that and work out in which function it actually was when it died.  It 
looks like your regenerated kernel might be a little off.

(It could also be that the stack is toasted, in which case all bets are 
off.)

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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