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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.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037





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