Breakpoints in Softice are not working Help

[JMI]

And "of course" you RTFM about context sensitive breakpoints and actually searched for information about v3.1 and breakpoints, right?

Regards,

[dyn!o]

I suppose the guy (?) is asking rather about user mode (ring 3) breakpoints.

Driver Studio 3.1 was indeed the first relase which may confuse its users if they don't read help file. In DS 3.1 there exist a variable which defines BP response in ring 3 mode. Starting from this relase breakpoints are context sensitive, which means they are active only in the context in which they were activated.

More information at: http://www.exetools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3732&

(notice "set BreakInSharedMods on " command - that is exactly what you are searching for)

Regards.

Or it should be also possible to BPM 'ADRESS' X
(I belive)

EDIT:
long time not used debugger but
addr ' ??? '
bpm ' ??? ' X

[dyn!o]

Nope. BPM, despite the fact of DRx usage, still works in a specific context only (DS >3.0).

Regards.

First check your SoftICE status ,is it enable ? Then enable the breakpoints in SoftICE . Use be to enable the breakpoints and bl to view the list of the current breakpoints . you can find more in SoftICE Command Refrence ....

[dyn!o]

Freddy2002: it still will not work because you cannot issue ADDR command with a direct address as the parameter (context). When you type the parameter of ADDR command it is the address of process specific KPEB (Kernel Process Environment Block), not any direct addressing. Context can be set only with KPEB, process name or PID.

So, you can set the breakpoints on the following ways:

ADDR Armadillo (process name)
BPX/BP 4a4740 (x)

ADDR 8202aa00 (KPEB)
BPX/BP 4a4740 (x)

ADDR 160 (PID)
BPX/BP 4a4740 (x)

It will work in DS 3.1 without issuing any additional commands and environment variables.

Regards.