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Date:      Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:58:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to debug a kernel with a lot kld's?
Message-ID:  <20050607125810.W37703@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20050607123024.b18hfrd5ww0088ok@netchild.homeip.net>
References:  <20050607123024.b18hfrd5ww0088ok@netchild.homeip.net>

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> I want to produce a backtrace of a kernel panic ("lockmgr: locking against
> myself" while accessing a msdosfs, very easy to reproduce for me: let
> rythmbox rescan the music collection (automatic operation at startup) which
> resides on a msdosfs). Unfortunately kgdb produces a lot of unresolved
> symbols since I load msdosfs as a module. The straigt forward way of
> debugging this is to build msdosfs into the kernel (or to use firewire when
> I'm back at my place), but I like to know if there's another way too
> (loading the modules into kgdb).

Does this help:

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-kld.html>;

cheers,
le

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