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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:04:45 +0100
From:      Marton Kenyeres <mkenyeres@konvergencia.hu>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems)
Message-ID:  <200501130904.46074.mkenyeres@konvergencia.hu>
In-Reply-To: <41E59844.6000805@updegrove.net>
References:  <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net> <44fz18m5k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <41E59844.6000805@updegrove.net>

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On Wednesday 12 January 2005 22:36, Rick Updegrove wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
[ ... ]
>
> So, I am still trying to obtain a dump.
>
> Thanks to your reply, I did re-read #KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
> more carefully and I did try the following.
>
> rickup@nothing$ nm -n /boot/kernel | grep c061c642
> nm: Warning: '/boot/kernel' is not an ordinary file

/boot/kernel is a directory containing the kernel and loadable modules. 
Try to run nm on /boot/kernel/kernel.

>
> Any ideas on that?  The reason I did not try that first was I
> mistakenly thought I had to first capture the crash dump for some
> reason.

You can get much much more information about what went wrong from a 
crash dump, so try to capture one if you can.
Oh, and build a debug kernel, if you didn't do it before. A crash dump 
can be pretty useless without one.

[ ... ]

>
>
> Rick

cheers,
m.



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