Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:59:21 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb -k & Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905260958510.518-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199905252310.QAA01848@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. I think Dmitrij has just fixed my mistake. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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