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From: cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: DDB: no symbols
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:33:38
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: pogyk@unixg.ubc.ca's message of 8 Jan 93 20:06:08 GMT
In article <pogyk.726523568@unixg.ubc.ca> pogyk@unixg.ubc.ca (Pogy Kurniawan) writes:
>Hello folks, Well I applied all patches x19,45,47 recompiled the kernel.
>Rebooted, and lo and behold it worked(for me this was a surprise)
>BIG BUG it reports DDB: no symbols. What is this and how can I clear it up.
you've gotta run "dbsym 386bsd" on the kernel...
this creates the ddb symbols that it needs...
this isn't really documented, and should probably be done automatically
somehow, but alas, i know not how... 8-)
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark