Re: kernel panic with todays source

On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Fatal trap 12   :page fault while in kernel mode
> > fault virtual address   =0x24
> > fault code              =supervisor read, page not present
> > instruction pointer     =0x8:0xc056c706
> > stack pointer           =0x10:0xcdca4ca4
> > frame pointer           =0x10:0xcdca4ca4
> > code segment            =base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> >                         =DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> > processor eflags        =resume, IOPL=0
> > current process         =11 (idle)
> > trap number             =12
> > panic: page fault
> >
> > I do have compiled the kernel with makeoptions debug but I don't have a
> > serial terminal nor firewire.
>
> Could you show the output from running the following command in "gdb -k
> kernel.debug":
>
>   l *0xc056c706
>
> This will tell us where in the kernel the instruction pointer in question
> was.  For whatever reason, your kernel panic doesn't seem to have dropped
> you into DDB (at least, the output looks that way).  If you did get into
> ddb, the results of the "trace" command would be very helpful.  As you
> have no serial console, it's probably sufficient to just transcript the

I think for this I need to set "options DDB" in my kernel, don't I? But 
without serial terminal this is pretty useless I think.
But I'll do if you can get needed information which was otherwise not 
accessable.

Thanks,

-Harry

> offsets at the end of each line in the trace (functioname+0xOFFSET)
> without the argument entries.
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories