Re: Problems with pppd

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> ejc wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Out of curiosity, how does one view the coredump file and get stack
> > traces from it?
>
>
> These are reasonable places to start:
> http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/Create_a_coredump
> http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/Kernel_Debugging_in_DragonFly_BSD
>
> One little thing that might not be obvious to a newcomer:  any time you
> build a new kernel, the 'old' kernel is stripped of debugging symbols
> and saved as kernel.old.
>
> If you need to reboot kernel.old (e.g. the new kernel panics on boot)
> then be careful to point gdb to the 'new' kernel which still has the
> debugging symbols.

yea.  savecore might even not work if called from the .old kernel.  then 
you will have to point savecore manually to the panic'ed kernel.

cheers
  simon

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