From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 16:14:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85603157A2 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01848; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905252310.QAA01848@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Greg Quinlan" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb -k & Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 23:43:12 BST." <01bea6ff$f8639660$0101a8c0@greg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:10:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Nope that didn't work.... the kernel.0 your referring to will not have any > debug code.... but kernel.debug should. Yet that didn't work either. I typically just install the debug kernel, so that all the kernels in the dump area contain debug symbols. > # cd /var/crash > # ls > bounds kernel.0 vmcore.0 > > # gdb -k kernel.0 --core vmcore.0 > GNU gdb 4.18 > 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"... > (no debugging symbols found)... > kernel symbol `SMP_prvspace' not found. > (kgdb) where > No stack. > (kgdb) q Weird. I can only wonder if there's a problem with dumps taken on SMP systems; everything else ought to work. You might want to poke Doug Rabson just in case something broke in the recent gdb changes. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message