Hello,

I guess you need to load the uncompressed kernel image (vmlinux)
instead of the compressed one (vmlinuz).

Best Regards
Mayur

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tapas Mishra <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried to run gdb on a 32 bit kernel image.
> gdb /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic /proc/kcore
>
> and tried to check loops_per_jiffy via gdb
>
>  gdb vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic /proc/kcore
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> "/tmp/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic": not in executable format: File
> format not recognized
> Core was generated by `root=UUID=1c1bc84c-9ef5-4daa-a630-8fe29b5d12d1
> ro quiet splash'.
> [New process 0]
> #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) whatis loops_per_jiffy
> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
> (gdb)
>
>
> The last line of above message says
> "no symbol table is loaded Use the "file" command."
>
> where as while invoking gdb I had used it.
>
>
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