From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 18:48:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29889 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29880 Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id VAA00596; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:48:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id VAA03837; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:48:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:48:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... In-Reply-To: <199604232325.QAA00460@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: <1 thru 7 removed as I'm working on those ones> > > 8. Compile a kernel with kgdb so that when the system crashes you > can hopefelly pop into the debugger and send us a stack trace. > I have the kernel compiled with DDB & DODUMP enabled, so that I get dropped to ddb and can do a trace...I send them out and get told its a hardware problem and then they seem to drop off the face of the earth :( Is it also a hardware problem that prevents me from getting a coredump after issuing 2xpanic at the ddb> prompt to cause it to reboot? My -current machine reboots and drops core so that I can run kgdb against it, but my -stable machine won't :( > 9. See if you can get hold of another vga card something like an ISA > et4000 based. > Will add that to my "hardware wish list" for a new machine...if I can get *one* machine stable, then this won't be soooo frustrating. Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org