Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:10:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb -k & Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <199905252310.QAA01848@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 23:43:12 BST." <01bea6ff$f8639660$0101a8c0@greg>
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> Nope that didn't work.... the kernel.0 your referring to will not have any > debug code.... but kernel.debug should. Yet that didn't work either. I typically just install the debug kernel, so that all the kernels in the dump area contain debug symbols. > # cd /var/crash > # ls > bounds kernel.0 vmcore.0 > > # gdb -k kernel.0 --core vmcore.0 > 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"... > (no debugging symbols found)... > kernel symbol `SMP_prvspace' not found. > (kgdb) where > No stack. > (kgdb) q Weird. I can only wonder if there's a problem with dumps taken on SMP systems; everything else ought to work. You might want to poke Doug Rabson just in case something broke in the recent gdb changes. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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