Re: [Crash-utility] crash 4.0-3.14 and SLES 10
Bernhard Walle wrote:
For the debug kernel, you have to install kernel-debug-debuginfo to
have debugging information available. For the location, the debuginfo
packages are not on CD/DVD but only available as online repository.
If you have problems finding the location, please contact support
(yes, that's nothing for this mailinglist here, but I hope Dave
doesn't remove me from the list now ;-)).
Hey, no problem -- this list is meant to be distribution-independent...
You can always use the KOTD [1], BTW.
>However, when I attempted to feed that kernel to crash, it freezed
>my host. I tried it both with the smp kernel and default kernel, and both
>times the host freezed up. Right now I'm planning to patch up the system
>(current version is 2.6.16.46-0.12) to the latest updates and hope this
>might take care of the problem.
This looks like a bug.
Really -- that's bizarre. There's no good reason why running
crash on a live system should freeze anything! It's just a
user program -- although on SLES I'm guessing that it reads
/dev/mem right? That's the only thing I can think of, i.e.,
that by using the wrong vmlinux it's somehow accessing the
wrong location in physical memory, which is mapped to a device
that reacts to being read, or non-existent memory that causes
the kernel to go off into the weeds? I have no idea...
Of course, this is one of those Virtual Iron beasts, right?
Dave