On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:16:03PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Kris Kennaway writes:
> > I'm getting this on several of my alphas. Any ideas? The traceback
> > and panic message is weird.
>
> gdb sucks bigtime on alpha. The weirdness is just gdb throwing its
> hands up in the air because it doesn't understand the trapframe and
> can't grok anymore of the stack than that. gdb is useful for getting
> stack traces from kernel panics on alpha only when a specific panic is
> hit, not a trap.
>
>
> So, you need to have ddb configured:
> options DDB
> options DDB_TRACE
OK, thanks. I'll add these in and post a real trace the next time it occurs.
Kris
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