FreeBSD 5.3 crash (core with debug symbols available)

Hello,

I posted this on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc newsgroup, but I got just
one reply, which claims that core I got is not really useful. I just
want to check here also, before I throw it out.

BTW: The system is FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5.

Here is my original post:

I get 2 crashes on my FreeBSD 5.3, after the second one, I decided to
compile it with debugging symbols.

The crash happens rarely but it's usually while dumping the system do 
backup (I use snapshot since I'm backing up a live system).

There is one bad thing though, while I compiled kernel debugger in, I 
forgot to set debug.debugger_on_panic=0. Because of that while it crashed, 
ddb was started. Since I'm not really experienced with ddb, I decided to 
write continue (it was 2 times).

Do you think, that this dump will be useful?
What should do to get some useful info for developers, it looks different 
than debugging userland application.

| [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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| This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd".
| doadump () at pcpu.h:159
| (kgdb) bt
| #0  doadump () at pcpu.h:159
| #1  0xc04e6024 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:397
| #2  0xc04e63d9 in panic (fmt=0xc06df826 "vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: %lx")
|     at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:553
| #3  0xc0644249 in vm_fault (map=0xc103a000, vaddr=3509317632, fault_type=1 '\001', fault_flags=0)
|     at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:278
| #4  0xc069dca3 in trap_pfault (frame=0xcbd25be4, usermode=0, eva=3509320804) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:716
| #5  0xc069d860 in trap (frame=
|       {tf_fs = -1040646120, tf_es = 16, tf_ds = -1043267568, tf_edi = 0, tf_esi = 0, tf_ebp = -875406268, tf_isp = -875406320, tf_ebx = -1048825456, tf_edx = 8192, tf_ecx = 13, tf_eax = -785646492, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 0, tf_eip = -1068589761, tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 65666, tf_esp = 0, tf_ss = -1051819632}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:417
| #6  0xc068ad7a in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:140
| #7  0xc1f90018 in ?? ()
| #8  0x00000010 in ?? ()
| #9  0xc1d10010 in ?? ()
| #10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
| #11 0x00000000 in ?? ()
| #12 0xcbd25c44 in ?? ()
| #13 0xcbd25c10 in ?? ()
| #14 0xc17c3190 in ?? ()
| #15 0x00002000 in ?? ()
| #16 0x0000000d in ?? ()
| #17 0xd12bfc64 in ?? ()
| #18 0x0000000c in ?? ()
| #19 0x00000000 in ?? ()
| #20 0xc04e9d3f in sigtd (p=0xc16948d4, sig=14, prop=129) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1581
| #21 0xc04e9e2b in psignal (p=0x0, sig=14) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1634
| #22 0xc04f5170 in realitexpire (arg=0xc16948d4) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c:554
| #23 0xc04f595e in softclock (dummy=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_timeout.c:259
| #24 0xc04cbed8 in ithread_loop (arg=0xc14dd580) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_intr.c:547
| #25 0xc04cac10 in fork_exit (callout=0xc04cbd20 <ithread_loop>, arg=0x0, frame=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:811
| #26 0xc068addc in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:209
| (kgdb) up
| No stack.
  

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