<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com">mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:23, Akash <<a href="mailto:email2akashjain@gmail.com">email2akashjain@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think it was not built with -g otherwise the symbols would have been there<br>
> in the vmlinux itself, right ?<br>
> That is the reason I need to add symbols externally.<br>
> Please dont ask me to rebuild the kernel, this is vanilla OpenSUSE 11.3<br>
> symbols and debug kernel should be available somewhere. I just need to know<br>
> how/where to add the symbols. The problem is not reproducible, I need to<br>
> debug the core which I have on hand.<br>
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</div>try to check opensuse repo, see which one provide kinda "debuginfo"<br>
package for your kernel (at least that's how Fedora/RHEL call it).<br>
Usually it will be located under /boot with quite obvious name<br>
(suffixed with "debug" or similar) or you could just try to use<br>
vmlinux as the symbol file<br>
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NB: make sure you use the very same debuginfo package with your<br>
current kernel version. Any slight difference could yield very<br>
different symbol addresses.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Thanks Malyudi. Thats sounds like a reasonable approach. I did try to search kernel-debug RPMs for my kernel could not find any. May be I should just keep looking.<br>
<br>On that note, I wonder what is the difference between kernel-base, kernel-default, kernel-devel, and similar other RPMs. I guess some contain binaries, some contain unstripped binaries and some contain soruces/headers. But which is which ?? I hate distros for creating so many RPMs. They could have included ALL of this in one RPM and users would not have minded.<br>
<br>->Akash<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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