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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!news.nic.utwente.nl!news.cs.utwente.nl!not-for-mail From: olah@curie.utwente.nl (Andras Olah) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help debugging kernel dump, FAQ out of date? Date: 12 Apr 1996 07:10:47 GMT Organization: Univ. of Twente, Dept. of Comp. Sci. Lines: 13 Sender: olah@curie (Andras Olah) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kkvln$5i0@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> References: <4kdoeh$16j8@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: curie.cs.utwente.nl To: tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) In article <4kdoeh$16j8@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com>, tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) writes: |> I read the FAQ, but it said nothing about the sysconfig file, so I assume |> its out of date (v1.2 3/25/95). I have FreeBSD 2.1 and there is no kgdb, |> so now that I have kernel core dumps could someone explain what I use to |> look at them. gdb doesn't recognize either the kernel or vmcore file. Use gdb -k instead of kgdb. You'll find further (up to date) info at /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html if you've installed the documentation. Otherwise go to the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/ . I hope this gets you started, Andras