topic Re: Problem with nickel in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with nickel

Ralf Buchhold — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 06:23:17 GMT

Hallo
I installed nickel version 1.08.
On a HPUX 11.22 (Itanium) nickel failes
because adb -k is not possible.
What can I do ?
Thanks
Ralf

Re: Problem with nickel

Steve Steel — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 06:36:43 GMT

Hi

adb -k is deprecated on Itanium and is only for PA-RISC

Thus you can do nothing

The following command-line options to adb are obsolete and are no
longer required. (If used they generate a warning.)

-k Previously adb required this option to recognize HP-UX crash
dumps or /dev/mem.

-m Previously adb required this option to recognize multiple file
HP-UX crash dumps.

Steve Steel

Re: Problem with nickel

Dietmar Konermann — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:01:58 GMT

I don't know Nickel's internals, but I assume it uses the "old" adb syntax with /dev/mem and -k.

Simply leave away -k, but add -o (tell adb to accept "old" syntax) and use /dev/kmem instead of /dev/mem (adb does not support that on Itanium).

Best regards...
Dietmar.

Re: Problem with nickel

Steve Steel — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:07:24 GMT

Hi

Dietmar is right about format but answers are wrong

echo "lockable_mem/D" | adb -o /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
lockable_mem:
lockable_mem: 0

Steve Steel

Re: Problem with nickel

Dietmar Konermann — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:33:20 GMT

Steve,

not adb's answer is wrong. It's the question. :-)

The variable lockabe_mem is a long now... so it's better to use:

echo "lockable_mem/DD" | adb -o /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

or, directly using the new 64bit-capable adb format:

echo "lockable_mem/ld" | adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

You command prints only the most significant word of the variable.

Best regards...
Dietmar.

Re: Problem with nickel

Steve Steel — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:44:45 GMT

Dietmar

How right you are

Thank you for the input

Steve steel

Re: Problem with nickel

J.A.R. Karremans — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:29:23 GMT

Hi there everybody,

But do we have a good, new implementation of the nickel scripts that run on hpux Itanium? Or do we need to hack the scripts manually? If so, where exactly do we need to change what??

Kindest regards,
Jan