From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 20:18:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11410 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11393 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09439; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809230318.UAA09439@austin.polstra.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no Subject: Re: Strange CAM panics [LONG] In-Reply-To: References: <199809221347.HAA14437@panzer.plutotech.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:02 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > Unfortuantely, gdb won't recognize my kernel dump: > > finrod@niobe ~/crash$ gdb -k kernel.sym vmcore.0 > GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it > under certain conditions; type ßhow copying"to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type ßhow warranty"for details. > GDB 4.16 (i386-unknown-freebsd), > Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc... > > "/home/finrod/crash/kernel.sym": not in executable format: File format not recognized Yes, it's a pain. Build yourself an a.out version of gdb (set OBJFORMAT=aout in the environment when building it) and install it as something like "agdb". Then use that on the kernel. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message