Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 18:26:38 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: >> On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 17:02:09 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: >>> I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I >>> have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After >>> the

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Kuriyama
Greg, Thanks. Regarding the suspected corrupt dump file. In the syslog I can see the dump file being created (actually 'vmcore') and there are no error messages. Are you saying that the corruption occurs during the writing of the file or is the data resident in memory corrupt? I suspect that s

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 17:02:09 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: > I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I > have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After > the crash I use the 'gdb -k' command but get the following output: > > --

Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Kuriyama
I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After the crash I use the 'gdb -k' command but get the following output: -- chinmon1# gdb -k /data1/src/sys/compile/ata/kernel.debug /var/cras