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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:58:54 -0000
From:      "Jaime Kikpole" <jkikpole@cairodurham.org>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Random (?) kernel panics
Message-ID:  <20010426115855.0D87137B423@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010426000900.A88014@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:42:45PM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
> > makeoptions	DEBUG=-g		#Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
> 
> The debugging stuff is all stripped out when the kernel is installed
> into /, however it remains in the kernel.debug file in your kernel
> build directory: if you haven't rebuilt your kernel since, you can use
> this kernel with gdb and the vmcore image (it must be the same one as
> the kernel which panicked and dumped the vmcore, otherwise it won't
> work properly).

	So I'll need to reboot to the kernel.debug kernel, wait for the next 
panic, and then I'll have the details in gdb.  Right?

							Jaime

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