Help about debugging FreeBSD kernel core dump file

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Mar 1 03:48:23 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:41:08AM +0800, River wrote:
> Hi, Everyone:
> 
>
> How can I debug the core dump file created by kernel panic? I try to
> use "gdb -core vmcore.0" (vmcore.0 is 4G file because I have 4G
> memory) and the gdb said: this is not a vaild core file. Why?

Read the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook, on
the FreeBSD website.

Kris

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easily read.
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