Josef Whiter wrote:
 Hello,
 I'm having a problem using crash on cores generated by upstream kernels (in this
 case 2.6.20).  I'm using crash 4.0-3.20, and I've built my kernel with -g.
 Whenever I try to open it this is the error I get
 [root@rh5cluster2 127.0.0.1-2007-02-23-15:09:25]#
 crash /root/linux-2.6/vmlinux vmcore
 crash 4.0-3.20
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 crash: invalid (optional) structure member offsets: zone_struct_free_pages or
 zone_free_pages
        FILE: memory.c  LINE: 11520  FUNCTION: dump_memory_nodes()
 [/usr/bin/crash] error trace: 8096dcc => 80baca0 => 80ba076 => 812ee1a
 /usr/bin/nm: /usr/bin/crash: no symbols
 /usr/bin/nm: /usr/bin/crash: no symbols
 /usr/bin/nm: /usr/bin/crash: no symbols
 /usr/bin/nm: /usr/bin/crash: no symbols
 WARNING: Because this kernel was compiled with gcc version 4.1.1, certain
          commands or command options may fail unless crash is invoked with
          the  "--readnow" command line option.
 [root@rh5cluster2 127.0.0.1-2007-02-23-15:09:25]# file vmcore
 vmcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style
 the file is definitely a proper core.  I used the --readnow option and that did
 not help either.  Thank you, 
if you do this with your kernel:
  # gdb vmlinux
  ...
  (gdb) ptype struct zone
What do you see?
Dave