www/chromium crashing whole system

[Marcin Wisnicki]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:35:20 +0000, Alexander Best wrote:

> On Tue Nov 16 10, Alexander Best wrote:
>> 
>> WOW! this is the first time i hear of such a concept. it seems great
>> for people like me who are desktop users without any serial/firewire
>> consoles or any additional debugging hardware.
>> 
>> is there a way of trying this out somehow? personally i wouldn't need
>> the memory dump to work in partitions. i'd simply blug in a blank usb
>> stick and have the memory dump dd'ed onto it. i think adding partition
>> awareness is not really needed.
> 
> ok i read some more details and i think i figured out how to dump the
> memory to a usb stick. question still remains however: will i be able to
> use that memory snapshot in kgdb or gdb?
> 

Probably not. I thought about it a bit more and realized that you will 
miss state of cpu registers which is rather important.

How does debugging over firewire work if it only has access to host RAM ?