On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:35 PM, ben wilber <b...@desync.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 04:11:49PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> > [r...@test ~]# kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.1 >> > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] >> > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you >> > are >> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain >> > conditions. >> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. >> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. >> > This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"... >> > Cannot access memory at address 0xffffff0127ffffe0 >> > (kgdb) bt >> > #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () >> > Cannot access memory at address 0x0 >> > (kgdb) q >> >> >> I have seen this behavior from kgdb --- it doesn't seem to be able to >> handle coredumps I've made recently. At first I thought that I managed to >> trash either my kernel image or kgdb binary with all the unclean >> shutdowns I've been having, but if you're seeing kgdb failures, maybe it's >> not just my local system. >> >> Yet I am assuming that this is not broken for *everyone*, or we would have >> heard more noise about it. >> >> I'm running a current snapshot from April 4th; maybe I will try updating >> to a new snapshot tonight and see if kgdb behaves better after everything >> is rebuilt. > > Same here, for the last couple months maybe.
I'll chime in here with a "me too". Since at early April, I've been trying to figure out why my laptop locks up overnight (something about the CPUs going into C3). I can nearly always get it to coredump, but the vmcore files I generate are unusable... -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
