The following is a quote from the WinDbg home page:
“This Beta of Debugging Tools for Windows contains many bug fixes and new
enhancements. The debuggers are stable and more reliable than Version
2.0.23.0 and we recommend that you upgrade your debuggers to this new
version. It is also a requirement to use this Beta of the Debugging Tools
for Windows if you wish to debug post Beta 2 versions of Windows XP.”
Well, boys and girls, I’m here to tell you that that is an impossible thing
to do. At least it is with 2469. None of the bang commands work with the XP
2469 retail symbols. That leaves you the ability to reboot, and set
breakpoints. You cannot dump the stack … !stack doesn’t work. Why? Because
I’m using the wrong symbol set. But I downloaded the support ISO file dated
23 May 01, and then I installed the retail symbols. (and they did install
this time.)
You cannot look at IRPs … !irpfind and !irp are non-functional. The same
for !drvobj and !devobj. Every !bang command I have tried puts up the same
bitch box:
*************************************************************************
*** ***
*** ***
*** Your debugger is not using the correct symbols ***
*** ***
*** In order for this command to work properly, your symbol path ***
*** must point to .pdb files that have full type information. ***
*** ***
*** Certain .pdb files (such as the public OS symbols) do not ***
*** contain the required information. Contact the group that ***
*** provided you with these symbols if you need this command to ***
*** work. ***
*** ***
*** ***
*************************************************************************
Could I please make a suggestion? Try it yourself before you post it. Or
contact one of us poor dumb schmucks that are willing to test this stuff for
you and have us test it till you get it right. This makes the 3rd or 4th
drop that has the same problems — The symbols are screwed.
Consider yourself contacted.
Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@Broadstor.com
xxxxx@inland.net
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