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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:02 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange CAM panics [LONG]
Message-ID:  <199809230318.UAA09439@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiuif27of.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
References:  <199809221347.HAA14437@panzer.plutotech.com> <xzpiuif27of.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>

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In article <xzpiuif27of.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>,
Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=  <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> 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
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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