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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:24:20 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: no kld in minidumps
Message-ID:  <20061031002420.GF25511@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670610301028k3fef9a34m27e2c7d9ac3ead80@mail.gmail.com>
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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..

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     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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