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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:28:56 -0500
From:      "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To:        "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>,  "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>,  "Andriy Gapon" <avg@icyb.net.ua>,  "Dmitry Pryanishnikov" <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>,  "Jeremie Le Hen" <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no kld in minidumps
Message-ID:  <9ab217670610301728x42d34410rd7a7e22af311b9f0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061031002420.GF25511@funkthat.com>
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2006/10/30, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>:
> Devon H. O'Dell wrote this message on Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 14:28 -0400:
> > 2006/8/20, Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>:
> > >On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, 20:59+0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > >
> > >> on 18/08/2006 20:50 Dmitry Pryanishnikov said the following:
> > >> > Hello!
> > >> >
> > >> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > >> >> BTW, has anyone contemplated or even done this - some sort of a script
> > >> >> to automatically add all modules that were loaded at a time of crash ?
> > >> >
> > >> >   Hmm, isn't this the task for asf(8). If not, what is asf(8) for?
> > >>
> > >> This is a very nice command, thank you! But it does not seem to be
> > >> directly applicable to postmortem situation i.e. crash dump
> > >> debugging. Or maybe it will be easier to teach kldstat to work with
> > >> dumps/images in addition to what it does now ?
> > >
> > >There is some support in /usr/src/tools/debugscripts/ but I didn't try
> > >it recently.  To make it work you need to to do smth like that:
> > >
> > >cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/ && make gdbinit
> >
> > >From what I could tell, these were for remote debugging. I've written
> > a shellscript that wraps calling gdb -k (since we're using 4.x at the
> > shop). I'm not quite sure how to translate it into kgdb-feasible stuff
> > since kgdb doesn't have -x or -batch. If anybody would like to give me
> > pointers, I'd be glad to wrap it for either.
> >
> > It's available at http://databits.net/~dho/load_syms.txt
>
> You do know about:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/debugscripts/
>
> If you want to write up an entry for the README, I'll add it to the
> collection..

Yeah, it was my impression that these only worked with remote
debugging (seeing the comments around the relevant code). I'll play
around with it a little more and see what it's all about and submit
something for the README when I figure out how to use it.

--dho

> --
>   John-Mark Gurney                              Voice: +1 415 225 5579
>
>      "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
>



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