sick and tired of this symbol thing!!!!!! would appreciate your help

Harry Potter

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Nov 9, 2004, 11:53:25 PM11/9/04

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I've been working on fixing my symbols (not personally but my windbg) for
sometimes now... I've tried every instruction that I found through google,
microsoft and newsgroups... yet I get this freaky symbols are wrong thing...
How can this be fixed for once and all???
here is a snap shot

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

kd> g

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
Ntfs.sys -

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
dump_WMILIB.SYS -

*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for
dump_atapi.sys

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
win32k.sys -

Jeremy Boschen

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"Harry Potter" <hpo...@azkabar.com> wrote in message
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> I've been working on fixing my symbols (not personally but my windbg) for
> sometimes now... I've tried every instruction that I found through google,
> microsoft and newsgroups... yet I get this freaky symbols are wrong
> thing...
> How can this be fixed for once and all???
> here is a snap shot
>

What is your symbol path?

- Jeremy

Harry Potter

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Nov 10, 2004, 12:38:59 PM11/10/04

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here is the latest that I have both in env variables and symbol path of the
windbg
C:\Debug;SRV*C:\WINNT\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

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Jason Shay [MSFT]

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Nov 10, 2004, 1:36:21 PM11/10/04

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What is displayed when you do:
!sym noisy
.reload /f nt

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Harry Potter

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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

kd> !sym noisy

noisy mode - symbol prompts on

kd> .reload /f nt

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.exe is stripped. Searching for dbg file

SYMSRV: A connection with the server could not be established

SYMSRV: C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for
Windows\sym\ntoskrnl.dbg\40D1D18319a640\ntoskrnl.dbg not found

SYMSRV:
http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/ntoskrnl.dbg/40D1D18319a640/ntoskrnl.dbg
not found

DBGHELP: .\ntoskrnl.dbg - file not found

DBGHELP: .\symbols\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

DBGHELP: .\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.exe missing debug info. Searching for pdb anyway

DBGHELP: Can't use symbol server for ntoskrnl.pdb - no header information
available

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.pdb - file not found

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
ntoskrnl.exe -

DBGHELP: nt - export symbols

Now it complains that it can't find ntoskrnl.dbg but I have a folder under
C:\WINNT\Symbols directory on my machine plus a file ntoskrnl.dbg under
C:\WINNT\Symbols\exe and another same file under
C:\WINNT\Symbols\ntoskrnl.dbg\4047DB831a5540 directory.

It also says can't connect to server although my internet connection is
working fine

What I also don't underestand is why is it looking for C:\Program
Files\Debugging Tools for Windows path as SYMSRV path???

Please note that I'm working on win2000 and using windbg 6.3.0017

Thank you for your help.

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Harry Potter

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Nov 10, 2004, 2:03:16 PM11/10/04

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Please ignore my last message.. Here is the line I have under symbol files
in windbg and env variable of winnt

C:\Debug;SRV*C:\WINNT\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

C:\Debug contains my driver .pdb and apps. and C:|\WINNT\Symbols should
contain my windows debug stuff.

Here I run the command again and this is what I got..

kd> !sym noisy

noisy mode - symbol prompts on

kd> .reload /f nt

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.exe is stripped. Searching for dbg file

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\ntoskrnl.dbg - file not found

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\symbols\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

SYMSRV: A connection with the server could not be established

SYMSRV: C:\WINNT\Symbols\ntoskrnl.dbg\40D1D18319a640\ntoskrnl.dbg not found

SYMSRV:
http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/ntoskrnl.dbg/40D1D18319a640/ntoskrnl.dbg
not found

DBGHELP: .\ntoskrnl.dbg - file not found

DBGHELP: .\symbols\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

DBGHELP: .\exe\ntoskrnl.dbg - path not found

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.exe missing debug info. Searching for pdb anyway

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\ntoskrnl.pdb - file not found

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\symbols\exe\ntoskrnl.pdb - file not found

DBGHELP: C:\Debug\exe\ntoskrnl.pdb - file not found

DBGHELP: Can't use symbol server for ntoskrnl.pdb - no header information
available

DBGHELP: ntoskrnl.pdb - file not found

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
ntoskrnl.exe -

DBGHELP: nt - export symbols

Now it complains that it can't find ntoskrnl.dbg but I have a folder under
C:\WINNT\Symbols directory on my machine plus a file ntoskrnl.dbg under
C:\WINNT\Symbols\exe and another same file under

C:\WINNT\Symbols\ntoskrnl.dbg\4047DB831a5540 directory...

It seems that it doesn't understand that it should look under
c:\WINNT\symbols for the ntoskrnl.exe stuff. Why?

Please note that I'm working on win2000 and using windbg 6.3.0017

Thank you for your help

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Soumik Sarkar

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Nov 10, 2004, 6:09:32 PM11/10/04

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>>SYMSRV: A connection with the server could not be established

Do you have connection to the MS site?

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Harry Potter

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Nov 10, 2004, 7:05:41 PM11/10/04

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I have the internet connection live.... what do you mean exactly by MS
site???
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Pat Styles

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Nov 10, 2004, 8:12:10 PM11/10/04

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The debugger is unable to access http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols.
Are you behind a firewall?

.pat

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Harry Potter

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Nov 10, 2004, 9:17:24 PM11/10/04

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I am.. But I don't have problem with any other site....
in case it helps, which I don't think it does, but here is what I get if I
go to the link directly
Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

Thank you for your feedback...

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Mark Roddy

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Nov 11, 2004, 7:11:43 AM11/11/04

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In article <#Yvn7Q5x...@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, hpo...@azkabar.com says...

> I am.. But I don't have problem with any other site....
> in case it helps, which I don't think it does, but here is what I get if I
> go to the link directly
> Directory Listing Denied
> This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.
>
> Thank you for your feedback...
>

You need to resolve your internal network issues.

"SYMSRV: A connection with the server could not be established"

This obviously indicates that you cannot correctly access the symbol server.
Until you have fixed your network problem the symbol server, and consequently
the symbols themselves, will not be available.

If your test system is running the out of the box version of w2k/xp you can get
the symbols from the install cds.

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Hollis Technology Solutions 603-321-1032
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Neil Pike

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Nov 12, 2004, 7:49:45 AM11/12/04

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Do you have any sort of personal firewall installed that might be blocking WinDBG
but allowing whatever browser you're using?

> I am.. But I don't have problem with any other site....
> in case it helps, which I don't think it does, but here is what I get if I
> go to the link directly
> Directory Listing Denied
> This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.
>
> Thank you for your feedback...

Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd
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Harry Potter

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Nov 12, 2004, 3:09:51 PM11/12/04

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no... I don't have such thing...
I have installed the windbg on another pc with less apps intalled on it and
now it works ok on the ntoskrnl thing...
however it complains that it can't access the image
I have put my image file in C:\DEBUG\MYdriver.sys I set this through both
windbg and .exepath command but it keep coming back that
WARNING C:\DEBUG\MYDriver.sys is not accessable...
any idea....

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Neil Pike

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Nov 15, 2004, 5:48:40 AM11/15/04

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Afraid not - one for the MS folks....

> I have put my image file in C:\DEBUG\MYdriver.sys I set this through both
> windbg and .exepath command but it keep coming back that
> WARNING C:\DEBUG\MYDriver.sys is not accessable...
> any idea....

Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd

Soumik Sarkar

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Nov 15, 2004, 3:14:11 PM11/15/04

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Try .symopt+0x80000000 followed by a .reload
what does it say?

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