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

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:33:43 -0600, 
"Foris, Jim (MED)" <foris at mr.mr.med.ge.com> 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?