Subject: Re: crashing Xamiga victims: read this, please
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/25/1999 22:09:06
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've uploaded an Xamiga with debugging symbols to 
> 
> ftp.netbsd.org://pub/NetBSD/arch/amiga/misc/
> 
> get Xamiga.debug.README and Xamiga.debug.gz.
> 
> It is nearly 10 MB compressed, and uncompresses to 33 MB.
> 
> run it from gdb (as root, obviously!), and when it crashes, write down
> the crash cause and the output of the "where" command, and report them here.

I forgot:

for those not familiar with gdb or other Unix debuggers:

% unlimit
% gdb Xamiga
GNU gdb 4.17
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "m68k--netbsd"...
(gdb) run -dev /dev/grf3 -mode 7 bla bla bla
[crash message left out]
(gdb) where
[dump message left out]
(gdb) quit
%