Re: how to interpret crash?

From: David Magda (dmagda_at_ee.ryerson.ca)
Date: 05/28/04

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    Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:36:39 -0400
To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>

    On May 27, 2004, at 18:51, Doug White wrote:

    > If you put this line in your kernel config it should generate the
    > kernel.debug:
    >
    > makeoptions DEBUG=-g

    Yes, I have it that already.

    > You don't need the actual kernel.debug to boot with, just the image
    > around
    > so when you run gdb -k it can pull the symbols out. Otherwise, the
    > installed kernel is stripped. On -CURRENT, there's a
    > /sys/$arch/compile/$kernelname.debug that you suck in.

    Yes, but I sometimes clean out my compile / object directory and so
    when I need the debugging kernel it's not there (and I may have
    cvsup'ed my source tree). It would be nice if a debugging kernel is
    sitting there beside the kernel that I booted.

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