In the last episode (Jul 09), M. Warner Losh said:
> OK. How the ***** do I get a *!@#$@$#% crash dump on current? I
> did a dumpon to enable the dumping, which appeared to work. I then
> did a savecore after the system came back up (but before any swapping
> happened) and that seemed to work. I then tried to use gdb to read
> the core dump and got the following:
>
> sudo gdb -k ~/FreeBSD/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC/kernel.debug vmcore.2
> GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...Deprecated bfd_read called at
>/dell/imp/FreeBSD/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/dwarf2read.c line 3049 in dwarf2_read_section
>
>
> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
Don't you need to use gdb52 -k now, since the new GCC was turned on?
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