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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Page fault help
Date: 3 Jul 1997 17:49:18 GMT
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heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote:

>  Okay, I got a vmcore and kernel crash dump.  How do I go about
> debugging it?

See the section about kernel debugging in the handbook.  It's fairly
up-to-date.

>  gdb tells me the kernel has no debugging information
> and vmcore is: "File format not recognized".

Hmm, i hope that ain't a bug in gdb...

>  What is the number one reason for a page fault on a system that
> does nothing?

Either hardware failure (like RAM), or a kernel bug.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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