gdb remote debugging

2008-05-31 Thread Oren Almog
I am trying to set up remote debugging with gdb. I basically followed the handbook and several other guides I found online: building a custom kernel and setting the correct flags on sio.0. When I enter into ddb and type gdb I always get The gdb remote debugging backend could not be selected.

Vmware debugging

2008-05-30 Thread Oren Almog
I have question regarding remote debugging a freebsd guest OS (running on vmware). Is to possible to debug such a machine by a non FreeBSD OS using a gdb version that was compiled with target=i386-pc-bsd ? Or must i use two virtual machines, both of them running FreeBSD ? Thanks Oren

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-02-11 Thread Oren Almog
I am looking to learn more about the FreeBSD kernel internals and was wondering how out of the date is the book compared to the current status of the kernel. Also, does anyone have an idea if an updated version is in the works/planned? Thanks. ___

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 201, Issue 14

2008-02-07 Thread Oren Almog
I can actually sympathize with that. I am currently trying to understand some of the inner workings of the FreeBSD kernel but the lack of any design documents make it very challenging. And this is FreeBSD - whose documentation is held in high regard - most open source projects are very poor on

Re: Ports binary packages

2008-02-06 Thread Oren Almog
Oren Almog wrote: Hi When are new binary packages available? Are they compiled only at RELEASEs? No, they are compiled and updated continuously. Kris Thanks. I understand that the RELEASE directory contains only packages that were compiled with a specific version was released. Can

Re: Ports binary packages

2008-02-06 Thread Oren Almog
Oren Almog wrote: Hi When are new binary packages available? Are they compiled only at RELEASEs? No, they are compiled and updated continuously. Kris Thanks. I understand that the RELEASE directory contains only packages that were compiled with a specific version

Ports binary packages

2008-02-03 Thread Oren Almog
Hi When are new binary packages available? Are they compiled only at RELEASEs? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Preventing KDE from restarting

2008-02-01 Thread Oren Almog
Hi I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, the xserver and kdm restart automatically. Is there a way to make it quit directly to console? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Preventing KDE from restarting

2008-02-01 Thread Oren Almog
I do have that line but it is disabled (off). Looking at /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc does reveal a few options that can immediately restart a session but they are all either commented out or not set. Hi I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, the