Re: ksymoops

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

|> Package: ksymoops
|> Status: install ok installed
|> Priority: optional
|> Section: utils
|> Installed-Size: 412
|> Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
|> Version: 2.3.4-1
|> Depends: libc6 (>=3D 2.1.2)
|> Description: Linux kernel oops and error message decoder
|>  The Linux kernel produces error messages that contain machine
|> specific
|>  numbers which are meaningless for debugging.  ksymoops reads machine
|>  specific files and the error log and converts the addresses to
|>  meaningful symbols and offsets.
|>  .
|>  This is a complete replacement for the version of ksymoops in the
|>  kernel.  Older versions of ksymoops were in scripts/ksymoops.cc, more
|>  recently there was a version in the scripts/ksymoops directory.

Except that this package isn't installed here:

   % dpkg -s kysmoops
    Package `keysmoops' is not installed and no info is available.

    Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
    and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

Jim