Re: How to debug a kernel with a lot kld's?

From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander_at_Leidinger.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:33:18 +0200
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
>
> Long/short syndrome.

Sorry, but IMP (webmailer) formats the text itself. I can't produce lines
longer than configured.

> That's not the best place to look.  Look at gdb(4), which (barely)
> tells you about using the getsyms macro to load kld symbols.

getsyms for remote debugging, kldsyms for local debugging and nothing for
crashdumps. Since I asked for ways of analyzing a crashdump, the link to the
handbook helped more. But thanks for ponting me to gdb(4), I hadn't though of
looking there.

Bye,
Alexander.

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