Andrew Wheadon (andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de) wrote:

: >Number:         2709
: >Category:       port-i386
: >Synopsis:       kernel-core-files aren't recognised by gdb

: (root@wipux5:/var/crash>gdb netbsd.1 netbsd.1.core
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: GDB 4.11 (i386-netbsd), Copyright 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
: (no debugging symbols found)...

: "/var/crash/netbsd.1.core" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
: (gdb) quit

i think its the same as in FreeBSD - you should use gdb -k (or maybe kgdb) for
analysing kernel dumps

t

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