Re: [Crash-utility] problems running crash on recent rawhide live kernels

To get crash version 4.0-4.11 to run against that particular dumpfile, it needs to know the kernel's "phys_base" relocation value. And I don't know how (or if it's even possible) to get it from a fully-virtualized Xen guest dumpfile. However, if you run crash on the live on the kernel that panicked, you can determine it. So running live on kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9 I see: crash> help -m | grep phys_base phys_base: ffffffffff200000 crash> ...which in turn can be used as a command line argument for the xendump dumpfile from that kernel. So taking the sample dumpfile you gave me: # crash --machdep phys_base=0xffffffffff200000 vmlinux vmcore-rawhide.xmdump crash 4.0-4.11 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 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. NOTE: setting phys_base to: 0xffffffffff200000 GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB 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. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: vmlinux DUMPFILE: vmcore-rawhide.xmdump CPUS: 1 DATE: Tue Dec 4 15:41:08 2007 UPTIME: 06:10:51 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 TASKS: 74 NODENAME: dhcp231-229.rdu.redhat.com RELEASE: 2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9 VERSION: #1 SMP Sat Dec 1 13:59:08 EST 2007 MACHINE: x86_64 (3458 Mhz) MEMORY: 511.6 MB PANIC: "SysRq : Trigger a crashdump" PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper" TASK: ffffffff813a1780 [THREAD_INFO: ffffffff81496000] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) crash> Pain in the ass. But I don't know any better way. Dave