Why I am getting errors of not getting symbols?

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I have installed Win 2000 SP2 and WinDbg 6.0 and NTDDK.I have successfully
debugged 2-3 kernel mode drivers.But now I am not able to apply breakpoint
in my source code.It says that the symbol files cannot be found like this.

Symbol search path is: c:\winnt\symbols;d:\shared\newtoaster\pdbs
kd> .reload
Connected to Windows 2000 2195 x86 compatible target, ptr64 FALSE
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols
for ntoskrnl.exe -
Loading Kernel Symbols
…
Loading unloaded module list

Loading User Symbols
PEB address is NULL !

These errors were not there before.Mistake on my part is I cancelled the
installation of win2000 SP3 on my machine.Is this the culprit?So after
that I reinstalled the SP2 and again installed the symbols.Still the
problem persists.I recompiled the driver and tried to load but in vain!All
the pdb files are in their proper place.
What to do?
Anand.

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  1. Use the latest (6.0.17.0) release of windbg.
  2. Use the internet symbol server (see the ddk debugger page for details
    on how to set this up.)

Go here for the latest debugger versions and information:
http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging

In general you do NOT want to have windbg using c:\winnt\symbols, as
that is the path to your development workstation (or debug system,)
symbols, not the path to the symbols for the system under test, right?

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Mark Roddy
Consultant, Microsoft DDK MVP
Hollis Technology Solutions
xxxxx@hollistech.com
www.hollistech.com
603-321-1032

-----Original Message-----
From: “Anand Chaudhari”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 04:39:59 -0400
Subject: [ntdev] Why I am getting errors of not getting symbols?

> I have installed Win 2000 SP2 and WinDbg 6.0 and NTDDK.I have
> successfully
> debugged 2-3 kernel mode drivers.But now I am not able to apply
> breakpoint
> in my source code.It says that the symbol files cannot be found like
> this.
>
> Symbol search path is: c:\winnt\symbols;d:\shared\newtoaster\pdbs
> kd> .reload
> Connected to Windows 2000 2195 x86 compatible target, ptr64 FALSE
> *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols
> for ntoskrnl.exe -
> Loading Kernel Symbols
> …
> Loading unloaded module list
>
> Loading User Symbols
> PEB address is NULL !
>
>
> These errors were not there before.Mistake on my part is I cancelled
> the
> installation of win2000 SP3 on my machine.Is this the culprit?So after
> that I reinstalled the SP2 and again installed the symbols.Still the
> problem persists.I recompiled the driver and tried to load but in
> vain!All
> the pdb files are in their proper place.
> What to do?
> Anand.
>
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