Subject: Re: How to read a crash file?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/2006 19:12:09
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Christian Biere wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
>> Is there some magic incantation to make gdb read this file?  I'd like
>> to find out why my system crashed!  :)
>
> It used to be "target kcore /path/to/coredump" but kcore is kvm now. I
> think you have to gunzip in either case.

Well, there is no "target kvm" but "target kcore" still exists.  But it
doesn't work - whether or not I supply a pathname, it complains

 	No kernel exec file specified




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