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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:42:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DDB scripting, output capture, and textdumps
Message-ID:  <20071221093923.W67327@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712210432.58751.qpadla@gmail.com>
References:  <20071218120359.E15521@fledge.watson.org> <200712201532.41123.qpadla@gmail.com> <20071220134033.T94754@fledge.watson.org> <200712210432.58751.qpadla@gmail.com>

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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:

> On Thursday 20 December 2007 15:42:21 Robert Watson wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
>>> It looks like some files is not included in the patch. I have this error:
>>
>> Unfortunately, p4 doesn't include a -N argument to its diff2 command, so I 
>> attached the new files directly in the tarball (including the kernel ones). 
>> Could you check and see if they are there?  If you untar the tarball in 
>> your top-level src directory, it should extract one man page into 
>> share/man/man4, a few files into src/sbin/ddb (note: I have not updated the 
>> sbin Makefile so you'll need to build it by hand), three files into 
>> src/sys/ddb, and then a patch which you apply.
>
> Thanks. I've figure this out, but still see some problems. I've created a 
> panic during the manual kernel debuging session and after reboot found a 
> textdump file in a /var/crash directory, but unexpectedly i can not untar 
> it:

Sounds like a problem.  Could you send me, via private e-mail, the output of 
uname -a, the approximate script you ran, and a copy of the textdump (gzip'd 
and attached, or via a URL or such)?  The dump file looks quite large, larger 
than I'd really expect, so it could be there's an extraction problem.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


>
> root@orion-vm:/var/crash# bsdtar -xf textdump.tar.0
> bsdtar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
> bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> root@orion-vm:/var/crash# file textdump.tar.0
> textdump.tar.0: data
> root@orion-vm:/var/crash# ls -la textdump.tar.0
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  35483648 Dec 21 02:17 textdump.tar.0
>
>
> -- 
> ======================================================================
> - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<-----------------------------------
> ======================================================================
>
>



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