Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:31:10 -0400 From: "Ben Goodwin" <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fw: 3.3R box crashing; need help debugging the crash Message-ID: <011201bf15ec$2d177380$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com>
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Okay, since this didn't work. Who can I contact to help me out with this?
-=| Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Goodwin" <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com>
To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: 3.3R box crashing; need help debugging the crash
> > Cool, perhaps if you provide some interesting information, someone
> > _else_ will know how to interpret it. :-)
>
> Indeed that's what I'm looking to have done ..
>
> > First, we make some assumptions here:
> >
> > 1) When you configured your kernel, you did ``config -g'' for debugging
> > support.
>
> Yes.
>
> > 2) Hopefully, your crash isn't happening inside a kld. That's icky. For
> > this situation, try to limit the number of kld's you use.
>
> I don't think I'm using any.. I have a perty basic config going here ..
>
> > gdb -k /path/to/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0
> >
> > Gdb should tell you about the panic. You can then issue the command
> > ``back'' at the GDB prompt to get a backtrace. Then cut'n'paste
> > everything that follows the gdb copyright notice. :-)
>
> Ok.. I've gotten to this point on my own .. so I'll cut-n-paste the
results
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