My original posting was:
currently we are being tormented by system crashes that are reliably deducable to the invocation of certain dbx commands (!).
Basically, the crashes occur, when you do a "dbx -pid ...", define a certain breakpoint, issue "cont" and, when having reached the breakpoint condition, "S"tep one instruction forward.
When such a crash first occurred, we had a we had a "good" crash with information in uerf-Log, /var/adm/crash and so on. Later "bad" crashes just halted the machine.
Anyone having experienced similar problems / able to offer advice?
OS: Digital Unix 4.0B
HW: AlphaStation 200 4/166
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I really do have to say that this is a very nimble mailing list, regarding the number and speed of feedback mails! All unanimously said that there is a bug in Digital Unix 4.0B, where normal user dbx sessions can hang or crash the system (bad bug, isn't it?). The workaround is to rebuild the kernel without the KDEBUG option.
Thanks to Christophe DIARRA <diarra_at_ipno.in2p3.fr>, Olle Eriksson <olle_at_cb.uu.se>, Miguel Mena <migi_at_zuo.dec.com>, Rainer Landes <rlandes_at_fphws03.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de> and Erik Persson <erik_at_lysator.liu.se> for responding.
Regards,
Thomas Meyer, EDV-Systemadministrator
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Received on Wed Apr 16 1997 - 13:36:39 NZST