I have been working on back-porting kexec/kdump functionality from 2.6.13 vanilla kernel to RHEL4, Update 2 kernel (version 2.6.9-22).

As part of that, when I try to invoke "crash" on a vmcore generated, I get the following error in "crash" tool:

[root crash-4.0-2.23]# ./crash /boot/System.map-2.6.9-kdump-1 /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9-kdump-1/linux- 2.6.9/vmlinux /root/vmcore

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crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff813a8200 type: "xtime"

[root crash-4.0-2.23]#

I tried with both crash-4.0-2.15 as well as crash-4.0-2.23. Same result.

- Should I be re-building crash as part of the back-port?

- Is crash capable of handing vmcore's generated by kdump?

- Can someone suggest how I can make progress to get crash to work for this?