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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:22:48 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmcore problem 
Message-ID:  <200201190922.g0J9MmX70494@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:50:06 PST." <20020118205005.A65744@cpl.net> 

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Shawn Ramsey writes:
> Can anyone tell me why gdb is giving this error? Here is the output :
> 
> (gdb) symbol-file kernel.debug
> Reading symbols from kernel.debug...done.
> (gdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.0
> (gdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0
> "/var/crash/vmcore.0" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
> 

You have to start gdb with the -k flag, otherwise it can't grok
crashdumps.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org

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