Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:30:11 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, rwatson@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.3-RELEASE panic Message-ID: <200801230930.11751.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47953526.5020501@FreeBSD.org> References: <004b01c85c4e$e1c44540$a54ccfc0$@muni.cz> <47952160.7030106@freebsd.org> <47953526.5020501@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday 21 January 2008 07:13:26 pm Kris Kennaway wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Petr Holub wrote: > >>> as I've said in my previous email (outside the list), I've got the > >>> kernel through freebsd-update and it seems there is no kernel.debug > >>> nor kernel.symbols present. Would it be possible to get the .symbols > >>> or .debug for that kernel? (See my previuous email with more detailed > >>> info). > >> Ah, I missed that, sorry. Colin hopefully will have the kernel.debug > >> handy. > > > > I'm afraid not -- FreeBSD Update is just distributing the bits from the > > release ISO image, and the release ISO doesn't include kernel debug bits > > (at least, not on 6.3-RELEASE -- I think it does on 7.0-RC1). > > I thought we shipped the debugging symbols in /boot precisely for the > reason of making panics with default installs not report useless traces :( In the past re@ has removed the 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' from GENERIC when making a stable branch. 6.x doesn't have the foo.symbols changes in it either. It's too late for 6.3, but we should make sure 7.0 has symbols enabled by default still. -- John Baldwin
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