Re: [Crash-utility] SLES 9 Dump

----- Original Message ----- The best answer is probably... The normal syntax is simply: $ crash vmlinux dumpfile But if I'm not mistaken, at least back in the SLES 9 timeframe, Suse did not build the vmlinux file with full debuginfo data, and they may have had to rebuild the same kernel version with -g to get a vmlinux file. And because the rebuilt kernel may get compiled with slightly different symbol values, you'd have to add the System.map file of the crashing kernel to the command line: $ crash vmlinux dumpfile System.map I only have one sample SLES kernel and dumpfile, and it pretty much works OK, even without the System.map: crash 6.1.4 Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... WARNING: could not find MAGIC_START! please wait... (gathering task table data)- crash: cannot read from task: 1002ffff290 crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: 1002ffff000 type: "fill_task_struct" KERNEL: vmlinux DUMPFILE: dump.1 CPUS: 4 DATE: Mon May 7 06:20:59 2012 UPTIME: 213503982284 days, 21:43:36 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.01, 0.05, 0.06 TASKS: 69 NODENAME: linux RELEASE: 2.6.5-7.308-smp VERSION: #2 SMP Fri Apr 27 09:33:08 PDT 2012 MACHINE: x86_64 (1999 Mhz) MEMORY: 768 MB PANIC: "manual" PID: 15004 COMMAND: "lkcd_config" TASK: 1002f4180f0 [THREAD_INFO: 1001306e000] CPU: 2 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC) crash> So it is possible -- but you will need to find a vmlinux file and probably the System.map file to get it up and running. Dave