Chapter 36. Life Without A Root Directory
In Chapter 5, we showed you how to intentionally crash your own system. Now let’s analyze the system crash dump files that were generated by the panic.
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First, let’s take a look at the strings output.
Hiya... strings vmcore.0 | more Generic_101318-45 Data fault P+ PRLR v@ ( X,DD XBAD TRAP: type=9 rp=f05d04c4 addr=3 mmu_fsr=3a6 rw=2 fm_flb: Data fault kernel write fault at addr=0x3, pme=0x0 MMU sfsr=3a6: Invalid Address on supv data store at level 3 pid=496, pc=0xf0048918, sp=0xf05d0510, psr=0x404000c7, context=408 g1-g7: 0, 0, ffffff00, 0, f05d09e0, 1, fc45c600 Begin traceback... sp = f05d0510 Called from f009e214, fp=f05d0680, args=f05d06e4 0 f05d06ec 0 0 fc01dd14 Called from f00e4790, ...Get Panic! UNIX® System Crash Dump Analysis now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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