On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:16:03PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway writes:
>  > I'm getting this on several of my alphas.  Any ideas?  The traceback
>  > and panic message is weird.
> 
> gdb sucks bigtime on alpha.  The weirdness is just gdb throwing its
> hands up in the air because it doesn't understand the trapframe and
> can't grok anymore of the stack than that.  gdb is useful for getting
> stack traces from kernel panics on alpha only when a specific panic is
> hit, not a trap.
> 
> 
> So, you need to have ddb configured:
>     options DDB
>     options DDB_TRACE

OK, thanks.  I'll add these in and post a real trace the next time it occurs.

Kris

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