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Re: using kdb on Red Hat/SGI linux-2.4.18-18SGI_XFS_1.2pre5

To: "Foris, Jim (MED)" <foris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: using kdb on Red Hat/SGI linux-2.4.18-18SGI_XFS_1.2pre5
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:50:43 +1100
Cc: kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:33:43 MDT." <3E42E2C7.90904@med.ge.com>
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:33:43 -0600, 
"Foris, Jim (MED)" <foris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Second, I am not able to break into a system hang - making the debugger
>useless for what I really need it for.

Use the nmi watchdog, boot with nmi_watchdog=1.

>Is there anything I need to do special to get symbols in the KDB tracebacks
>(like configure in stack frame pointers, maybe?) ?

kallsyms is automatically included.  What does your backtrace look like?


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