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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2013-03-28 23:29:24 +0100 |
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committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2013-03-28 23:29:24 +0100 |
commit | 211d4f0231ecc967bea385e3bed637aaff3d0fc5 (patch) | |
tree | 6bfc65c4441383338a85b2900501eb4da8285e8c /faq/issues/got_a_db_prompt.mdwn | |
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diff --git a/faq/issues/got_a_db_prompt.mdwn b/faq/issues/got_a_db_prompt.mdwn index 38e21566..ad99c515 100644 --- a/faq/issues/got_a_db_prompt.mdwn +++ b/faq/issues/got_a_db_prompt.mdwn @@ -5,25 +5,30 @@ id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -[[!meta title="I've just gotten a db> prompt"]] +[[!meta title="Help, I've just gotten a db> prompt"]] -Something bad happened in the kernel (think of it as the equivalent of the Linux -Oops). The `db>` prompt is actually the kernel debugger. You can then type the -`trace` command, which will bring you something like: +If you see a `db>` prompt on the console, something unexpected and bad happened +inside the [[GNU Mach kernel|microkernel/mach/gnumach]], which it cannot +recover from. (Think of it as the equivalent of a [[!wikipedia +Linux_kernel_oops]], for example.) The `db>` prompt is actually the GNU Mach +kernel debugger waiting for your commands. For example, you can then reboot +the system by issuing the `reboot` command, or if you want to help analyze the +problem, start by typing in the `trace` command, which will display the +function call trace leading to the crash: 0x8007cf1(8088488,5e,40000008,2aa008,0) 0x80071bc(0,0,0,0,0) 0x8006831(24fe00,2000,b,800,0) -Which is actually the function call trace, which can be decyphered by using: +This can be decyphered by using: $ addr2line -i -f -e /boot/gnumach 0x8007cf1 0x80071bc 0x8006831 -You can then send us the whole result of both the `trace` and the `addr2line` -commands, as well as -the exact version of the gnumach kernel you were running, for further -investigation. [[More information about the gnumach +You can then [[send us|contact_us]] the whole results of the `trace` and the +`addr2line` commands, as well as +the exact version of the GNU Mach kernel you were running, for further +investigation. More information about the [[GNU Mach debugger|microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging]] is available. |