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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!europa.clark.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Page fault help Date: 3 Jul 1997 17:49:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5pgomu$e9o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5pdrqu$he9@netaxs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43906 heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote: > Okay, I got a vmcore and kernel crash dump. How do I go about > debugging it? See the section about kernel debugging in the handbook. It's fairly up-to-date. > gdb tells me the kernel has no debugging information > and vmcore is: "File format not recognized". Hmm, i hope that ain't a bug in gdb... > What is the number one reason for a page fault on a system that > does nothing? Either hardware failure (like RAM), or a kernel bug. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)