Syncing of local symbols from symserver at once

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Hi gurus,

is it possible to synchronize local symbols for debugging from
Microsoft symbols server at once using some utility, for example?

What’s needed: I’ve checked/debug symbols installed on my
notebook which i carry with me home, where I’m debugging
something. I would like to be able to download all the
updated symbols from symbol server to my notebook at work
(we have T1 line) in advance, not during actual debugging
at home (only 56k modem).

Is there any utility, which will:

  1. Inspect symbols installed on my notebook.
  2. Compare them with actually installed XP soft (SPs, hotfixes etc.)
  3. Dowload all the missing symbols to my notebook, so I wouldn’t
    need to download them through slow modem at home while
    actually debugging (until I’ll apply some SP or hotfix, of course)

Any help & ideas are welcome!
Thanks

Roman

PS: Sorry for eventual crossposting :slight_smile:

2

Please set the symbol path like set
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*DownstreamStore*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbo
ls
DownstreamStore can be possible "c:\websymbols".

Can this satisfy your requeirement?

Hope it your help.

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Subject: [windbg] Syncing of local symbols from symserver at once

Hi gurus,

is it possible to synchronize local symbols for debugging from Microsoft
symbols server at once using some utility, for example?

What’s needed: I’ve checked/debug symbols installed on my notebook which i
carry with me home, where I’m debugging something. I would like to be able
to download all the updated symbols from symbol server to my notebook at
work (we have T1 line) in advance, not during actual debugging at home (only
56k modem).

Is there any utility, which will:

  1. Inspect symbols installed on my notebook.
  2. Compare them with actually installed XP soft (SPs, hotfixes etc.) 3.
    Dowload all the missing symbols to my notebook, so I wouldn’t
    need to download them through slow modem at home while
    actually debugging (until I’ll apply some SP or hotfix, of course)

Any help & ideas are welcome!
Thanks

Roman

PS: Sorry for eventual crossposting :slight_smile:

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Symchk.exe is the closest thing. You could have it check the versions
of those files present on your laptop and fetch the symbols to your
downstream store, but it would require that you do some
set-up/configuration to achieve this.

Symchk is documented in the Debugger docs.

Regards,

Tony

Tony Mason
Consulting Partner
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osr.com

Looking forward to seeing you at the Next OSR File Systems Class October
18, 2004 in Silicon Valley!

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Roman Hruza
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:59 AM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] Syncing of local symbols from symserver at once

Hi gurus,

is it possible to synchronize local symbols for debugging from
Microsoft symbols server at once using some utility, for example?

What’s needed: I’ve checked/debug symbols installed on my
notebook which i carry with me home, where I’m debugging
something. I would like to be able to download all the
updated symbols from symbol server to my notebook at work
(we have T1 line) in advance, not during actual debugging
at home (only 56k modem).

Is there any utility, which will:

  1. Inspect symbols installed on my notebook.
  2. Compare them with actually installed XP soft (SPs, hotfixes etc.)
  3. Dowload all the missing symbols to my notebook, so I wouldn’t
    need to download them through slow modem at home while
    actually debugging (until I’ll apply some SP or hotfix, of course)

Any help & ideas are welcome!
Thanks

Roman

PS: Sorry for eventual crossposting :slight_smile:

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wrote in message news:xxxxx@windbg…
> Please set the symbol path like set
>
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srvDownstreamStorehttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbo
> ls
> DownstreamStore can be possible "c:\websymbols".
>
> Can this satisfy your requeirement?
>
> Hope it your help.
>

That’s the way I’ve already set it up. But I would like to be able to
synchronize all my symbols on notebook at work (depending on
my actual configuration with regard to SPs, hotfixes etc.), all at once,
in order not to download any (missing) symbols at home. Some
automated symbol synchronization utility would be GREAT, to work
completely offline w/o the need for internet connection :slight_smile:

May be gurus @ MS Debugging tools team could evaluate this
idea? It is not only a problem between home<->work. Whenever
I visit our customer for servicing, it would be great to say them in
advance just ‘please run Windows update’, and then arrive and have
all the actual symbols ready on my notebook for the case some
‘really hard’ debugging will be required…

Such a utility will diminish the need for live connection to a minimum,
if not completely to none. And that would be grear for me…

Thank for your answer,

Roman

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On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:58:59 +0200, Roman Hruza
wrote:

> Hi gurus,
>
> is it possible to synchronize local symbols for debugging from
> Microsoft symbols server at once using some utility, for example?
>
> What’s needed: I’ve checked/debug symbols installed on my
> notebook which i carry with me home, where I’m debugging
> something. I would like to be able to download all the
> updated symbols from symbol server to my notebook at work
> (we have T1 line) in advance, not during actual debugging
> at home (only 56k modem).
>
> Is there any utility, which will:
> 1. Inspect symbols installed on my notebook.
> 2. Compare them with actually installed XP soft (SPs, hotfixes etc.)
> 3. Dowload all the missing symbols to my notebook, so I wouldn’t
> need to download them through slow modem at home while
> actually debugging (until I’ll apply some SP or hotfix, of course)
>
> Any help & ideas are welcome!
> Thanks
>
> Roman
>
> PS: Sorry for eventual crossposting :slight_smile:
>
>
>

If you have the NuMega tools, the “SymRetriever” tool will do this
(and also generate corresponding NuMega symbol files). Be sure to uncheck
the option to clear the list after download, that way you can always rerun
it
for the same files.

Jakob

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