Subject: RE: syslogd restart triggers a kernel trap?
To: 'Charles M. Hannum' <root@ihack.net>
From: Tom Haapanen <tomh@metrics.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/03/2001 14:29:43
Charles,

>> Mar  3 01:44:18 omega syslogd: restart
>> Mar  3 01:44:18 omega /netbsd:
>> Mar  3 01:44:18 omega /netbsd: fatal kernel trap:
> ...
>> Mar  3 01:44:19 omega /netbsd: dumping to dev 4,1 offset 263023
>> Mar  3 01:44:19 omega /netbsd: dump 128 127 126 125 124 123 122 121 120
119
>> 118

> Since it dumped, you should be able to inspect the core dump and find
> out where it crashed.  A stack trace would be most helpful.

Never having partaken in kernel debugging before, how do I get gdb to read
the core dump (so that I can get a stack trace)?  It looks like it was
written to /dev/wd0b, which is a 256 MB swap partition (the system has 128
MB of physical memory).  I trid specifying -c /dev/wd0b for gdb, but it
claimed it could not recognize the core file.

Tom