Re: [Crash-utility] Anyone seen this problem or what did i miss?)

Jay Lan wrote: > Dave Anderson wrote: >> Jay Lan wrote: >>> I tested in a rhel5.1 root with: >>> 2.6.24 kernel >>> kexec-tools-testing-20080227 >>> crash-4.0-5.1 >>> >>> >>> Crash failed to initialize: >>> >>> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a0000001007f0868 type: >>> "kernel_config_data" >>> WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data >>> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a000000100f370b0 type: >>> "xtime" >>> >>> Has anyone else seen this problem? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> - jay >> I'm not sure what may have changed in the ia64 world between >> 2.6.18 and 2.6.24, but here's some things you can look at. > > I found a patch posted by Jonathan Lim to the fastboot list in > March 2007: > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-March/013645.html > > I applied his patch to kexec-tools-testing-20080227 and it indeed > fixed the problem on IA64. > > But Magnum Dammn came back with a revised patch and had some > discussion exchange with Vivek on the thread. Unfortunately, > Magnum since then did not work on kexec/kdump any more before > a final version was agreed upon. > > - jay > It would probably be worth resurrecting this thread on the kexec(a)lists.infradead.org mailing list. That fastboot list seems to be dying a slow death.