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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6409 ; Sat, 09 Jan 93 11:01:46 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!axion!rtf.bt.co.uk!duplain From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: DDB: no symbols Message-ID: <1993Jan11.085803.2618@rtf.bt.co.uk> Date: 11 Jan 93 08:58:03 GMT References: <pogyk.726523568@unixg.ubc.ca> <CGD.93Jan8133338@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK Lines: 19 In article <CGD.93Jan8133338@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >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-) The best way is probably to test if "-DDDB" is included in the CFLAGS in /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 and if so, run "dbsym 386bsd" right after building the kernel. -- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk #define DISCLAIMER My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's