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From: olah@curie.utwente.nl (Andras Olah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help debugging kernel dump, FAQ out of date?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 07:10:47 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Twente, Dept. of Comp. Sci.
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Sender: olah@curie (Andras Olah)
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To: tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans)

In article <4kdoeh$16j8@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com>, tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) writes:
|> I read the FAQ, but it said nothing about the sysconfig file, so I assume
|> its out of date (v1.2 3/25/95). I have FreeBSD 2.1 and there is no kgdb,
|> so now that I have kernel core dumps could someone explain what I use to 
|> look at them. gdb doesn't recognize either the kernel or vmcore file.

Use gdb -k instead of kgdb.  You'll find further (up to date) info
at /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html if you've installed the
documentation.  Otherwise go to the handbook at
http://www.freebsd.org/ .

I hope this gets you started,
  Andras