Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:48:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960423214223.3520C-100000@freebsd.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199604232325.QAA00460@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
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