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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:20:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crash dumps on current
Message-ID:  <20020709162052.GC20718@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020709.100217.71087662.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20020709.100217.71087662.imp@bsdimp.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 09), M. Warner Losh said:
> OK.  How the ***** do I get a *!@#$@$#% crash dump on current?  I
> did a dumpon to enable the dumping, which appeared to work.  I then
> did a savecore after the system came back up (but before any swapping
> happened) and that seemed to work.  I then tried to use gdb to read
> the core dump and got the following:
> 
> sudo gdb -k ~/FreeBSD/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC/kernel.debug vmcore.2 
> GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
> 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"...Deprecated bfd_read called at /dell/imp/FreeBSD/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/dwarf2read.c line 3049 in dwarf2_read_section
> 
> 
> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

Don't you need to use gdb52 -k now, since the new GCC was turned on?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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