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    2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      wallabybob last edited by

      Because I've come across highly reproducible crashes on Apply all changes to ral and rum devices and I have some time on my hands I thought I would look into these crashes.

      The boot file is reported to be /boot/kernel/kernel.gz but this file doesn't have debugging symbols, specifically local functions. I went looking for a kernel file with debugging symbols and found a number of files in /kernels
      which were all different from the boot file.

      /boot/kernel/kernel.gz          6810893
      /kernels/kernel_Dev.gz          19238518
      /kernels/kernel_SMP.gz          7543182
      /kernels/kernel_uniprocessor.gz  7543203
      /kernels/kernel_wrap.gz          5958460

      What are all these kernel files? None of them (after unzipping) appear to have debug symbols.

      Here's the crash output that set me looking for debug symbols

      Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
      cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
      fault virtual address  = 0xc3bd3008
      instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xc0a863c2
      stack pointer          = 0x28:0xc325bb7c
      frame pointer          = 0x28:0xc325bba0
      code segment            = base 0x0 limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                              = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
      processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
      current process        = 12 (swi 4: clock)

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