Capturing dmesg upon system crash on 6.3
Yehonatan Yossef
yoniy at mellanox.co.il
Mon Feb 25 12:32:06 UTC 2008
> > I'm facing a system reboot upon loading of the driver, and
> I could use
> > a tool for capturing dmesg upon system crash (such as netconsole on
> > Linux).
>
> Your kernel isn't setup for driver development:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-ha
> ndbook/kerneldebug.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kern
> elconfig.html
>
> Basically, your system is rebooting cause the kernel panics
> and you're not setup for crash dumps, or anything that could
> help you diagnose the panic.
> --
> Mel
I've setup the dumpdev/dumpdir and I get a vmcore image upon a crash.
I don't really understand how to use kgdb in order to read it but more
than that - I don't need that much of data. I only want the dmesg report
at the moment, see at what point my driver went crazy. Is it possible?
Yony
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