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Submitted by: jkh gclarkii paul satoshi freebsd-hackers These are the FAQ files, reorganized a bit and updated marginally for 2.0. There is *still more work to be done* in updating, so if some of your FAQ text is below, please check it over! We've also got a lot of FAQ entries still to write (examples: "how do I upgrade?" "what's new in 2.0?" "how do I install on a notebook/second drive/from DOS/etc etc etc?"
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Kernel debugging FAQ
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FreeBSD
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Last modified: $Id: FreeBSD.kdebug.FAQ,v 1.1 1994/06/12 15:12:21 gclarkii Exp $
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Here are some instructions for getting kernel debugging working on
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a crash dump, it assumes that you have enough swap space for a crash
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dump.
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*** Start ***
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Config you're kernel using config -g
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Remove ${STRIP} -x $@; from the Makefile for the kernel so it doesn't
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get stripped.
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When the kernel's been built make a copy of it, say 386BSD.debug, and
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then run strip -x on the original. Install the original as normal.
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Now, after a crash dump, go to /sys/compile/WHATEVER and run kgdb. From kgdb
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do:
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symbol-file 386BSD.debug
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exec-file /var/crash/system.0
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core-file /var/crash/ram.0
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and viola, you can debug the crash dump using the kernel sources just like
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you can for any other program.
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Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
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