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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Page fault help
Date: 2 Jul 1997 15:24:14 GMT
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 Okay, I got a vmcore and kernel crash dump.  How do I go about debugging it?
gdb tells me the kernel has no debugging information and vmcore is:
"File format not recognized".

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

 FreeBSD 2.2.2 by the way.

Karl