On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM Michael W. Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I got my first kernel panic in ten years! (Was attempting to add a 32nd > zvol-backed drive to a bhyve guest.) > > This host didn't have kernel debug symbols. I went to install them and > discovered my host needed updates. Thoughtlessly, I grabbed the new > kernel and the new symbols. > > Oops. You can't debug a 15.0 kernel on 15.0p3. > > bucket/var/crash;kgdb -n 0 > kgdb: couldn't find a suitable kernel image > > I have a 15.0 boot environment I could boot into, if there's a way to > install the debugging symbols? Or is there a way to pull the old > kernel and debug symbols down on the current BE? > > On dch's advice I tried setting the pkg.conf URL: > url: > "pkg+https://cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_ > 0/" > but got: > pkg: No SRV record found for the repo 'FreeBSD-base' > > > Thanks, > ==ml > > PS: I shoulda just done make world, that way I'd have /boot/kernel.old. ;-) > > > > -- > Michael W.(Warren) Lucas https://mwl.link/
You can probably install the symbols from the DVD image. They're in the kernel-dbg.txz dist set. That should work for you, since your crash happened in 15.0. But the same technique wouldn't work if you had crashed at, say, 15.0-p1.
