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- Lines: 11
- Date:
Mon Sep 11 07:47:44 1995
- Orig file:
v1.3.25/linux/README
- Orig date:
Sun Sep 3 12:26:48 1995
diff -u --recursive --new-file v1.3.25/linux/README linux/README
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@
important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in
the above example it's due to a bad kernel pointer)
+ - You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump. Find
+ the C++ sources under the scripts/ directory to avoid having to do
+ the dump lookup by hand:
+
- in debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help
me or anybody else very much: it will depend on your particular
FUNET's LINUX-ADM group, linux-adm@nic.funet.fi
TCL-scripts by Sam Shen, slshen@lbl.gov
with Sam's (original) version of this