Windows 10: Windbg symbol location

Hello,


I have been trying to use Windbg to investigate a few BSD. I am not a programmer or expert just inquisitive. I have checked online and haven't found the magic link to the symbols as yet. Most posts are 2/3 yrs old.


My symbol path in Windbg is "SRV*C:\MyServerSymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols". My Version is: 10.0.19042 Build 19042




The closet answer I find to where the symbols have moved is, "to an Azure-based symbol store that is backed by a more robust publishing pipeline than the one we've had in the past." I know this means something to the experts on this forum but to me not enough to find the symbols.


Can you help me, please?

:)

 

WinDbg error.


Those errors have a few reasons:

• Missing symbols
• Corrupted symbols,
• Counterfeit system,
• Hardware damage,
• Improper configuration of Windbg,
• Microsoft servers down (rarely happening)

In case of missing symbols, simply reload (re-open) the dumps a few times so the symbols are downloaded.

In case of corrupted symbols,

• empty the symbol folder, move the symbols to a different folder,
  
• open the dump a few times, this should download the necessary symbols,
  
• move the symbols back to the original folder and say no when Windows asks if you want to copy the files with the same name too.

 

DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION BSOD, Windbg unable to load symbols


Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10130
WIN-A82HE7DTDIP-Fri_06_05_2015_172808_86.zip attached
PC Specs are in profile

So I have windbg, I followed the how to install guide (Using both the win8.1 and win10 SDK, both give the same errors, suggested fixes i tried failed on both) and regardless of what I do I have these errors throughout the console window:

*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for ntoskrnl.exe
***** Kernel symbols are WRONG. Please fix symbols to do analysis.

I tried !sym noisy/.reload which just brought up a whole bunch of HTTP errors and DLLs not found, and .symfix brought up this:

DBGHELP: Symbol Search Path: srv*c:\symcache*Symbol information
DBGHELP: Symbol Search Path: cache*;SRV*Symbol information
DBGHELP: Symbol Search Path: cache*;SRV*Symbol information

So I guess what I'm looking for is both a way to get windbg functioning properly and also an answer to what is causing my watchdog violation. I have been running Windows 10 for a while, had 1 watchdog BSOD on a previous Build and now 1 again on this one. No it isn't super frequent but it does bother me!

 

Issue with WinDBG being incredibly slow

Hi Bjoolz,

First, you're symbol path is improper, because you don't tell where you want to download the symbols.
Please check step 3 of WinDBG - Install Configure - Windows 10 Forums