Trap for young players: was: kernel core files broken in 6.0?

[Scott Long]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> Figured out why my kernel .debug didn't work to read the core file;
> 
>>>
>>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512 Jul 28 03:52 .
>>> schizo# uname -a
>>> FreeBSD schizo.dev.vicor-nb.com 6.0-20050725-SNAP FreeBSD 
>>> 6.0-20050725-SNAP
>>> #0: Mon Jul 25 17:24:58 UTC 2005
>>> root at fbsd6.dev.vicor-nb.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>>
> 
> Since this kernel was made by a "make release" the directory it reports is
> INSIDE THE BUILD JAIL and not on the main machine.. i.e.
> the debug kernel is to be found at
> /usr/tmp/chroot/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> and not at
> 
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> which if it exists, will hold some completely different debug kernel :-/
> 
> Julian
> 

So does this mean that it's pointless to provide a kernel.debug on the
release media right now?

Scott