Re: Problems

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:57:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> I rebooted the system without the card inserted and note that there is
> now a /var/crash/netbsd.0.core.gz, apparently a core dump. Would this
> be helpful to you? It would take some doing to get it off this system
> (I have no working network cards and no CD writer, so I'd have to
> split the file into small enough chunks, 10 or so, to fit on a floppy
> disk), but I'll do it if it would be helpful. Can I send emails with
> attachments to this list?

Do you have a serial console?  It might be less hassle to setup ppp or sl
and transfer the file that way.

Don't attach a core dump.  That's more than a bit too big.

Once you get the core dump to a machine where you have gdb you can
try to get a stack backtrace.  That might point out enough of the
problem that you won't need to send the core dump to anyone else.

eric