From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 20 23:58:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14864 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee ([194.126.98.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14848 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: (from root@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.9.1/8.8.5) id JAA19204 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:56:56 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <19980921095656.C18812@matti.ee> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:56:56 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the fs fun never stops Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <199809201922.PAA21926@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809201922.PAA21926@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>; from Bill Paul on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 03:22:50PM -0400 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Paul wrote: > I see people constantly show panic messages like this but rarely do I > see someone take the time to match up the instruction pointer with a > function in the kernel symbol table. > > The best way to track down the cause of a panic is by capturing a crash > dump, then using gdb to to a stack trace on the crash dump. Of course, > this depends on gdb in -current working correctly, which I can't > guarantee (I recall somebody saying that the new ELF-ized gdb didn't > handle kernel crash dumps correctly: somebody should check this before > 3.0 goes out of beta or there'll be a lot of red faces after the CDs > ship). > > In any case, the method I nornally use is this: *** Perhaps all this nice posting should go into FAQ with somewhat modified form ? I can say that all replys I got from Bill are almost anytime very helpful and I learned a lot of things recently by this way. Can anybody pick it up and convert into FAQ, please ? Thanks Bill. Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message