Re: Problems with gdb?

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > In attempts to debug another problem (see the thread about "killing
> > zombies"), I've twice forced crash dumps from ddb.  Once with the 'sync'
> > command, and once with 'reboot 0x104'.
> [...]
> > Yet, gdb fails to process these files:
>
> PR 48915?

Yup, looks like that's the one!

I can process the dump file successfully with

#  gdb /netbsd.gdb
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.9.1
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
....
Reading symbols from /netbsd.gdb...done.
(gdb) target kvm netbsd.4.core
0xffffffff801196a5 in cpu_reboot (howto=howto@entry=256,
    bootstr=bootstr@entry=0x0)
    at /build/netbsd-local/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:671
671                     dumpsys();
(gdb)



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