From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 21 19:42:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12719 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d3.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12688 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11954; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:39:54 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808211939.TAA11954@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: rotel@indigo.ie cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generating backtrace from kernel panic In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:18:58 GMT." <199808211519.QAA01819@indigo.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:39:53 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message