Re: [Crash-utility] crash tool not working

Thanks Dave. I installed zlib-devel and build was successful. Please find the output below: --------------------------- hltncra110731:/home/adil/crash-6.0.3 # ./crash -d8 ../linux-2.6.32.12-0.7/vmlinux /var/crash/2012-02-08-14\:13/vmcore crash 6.0.3 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 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. compressed kdump: header->utsname.machine: compressed kdump: memory bitmap offset: 2000 diskdump_data: filename: /var/crash/2012-02-08-14:13/vmcore flags: 6 (KDUMP_CMPRS_LOCAL|ERROR_EXCLUDED) dfd: 3 ofp: 0 machine_type: 62 (EM_X86_64) header: dedfe0 signature: "KDUMP " header_version: 1 utsname: sysname: nodename: release: version: machine: domainname: timestamp: tv_sec: 0 tv_usec: 0 status: 0 () block_size: 4096 sub_hdr_size: 1 bitmap_blocks: 76 max_mapnr: 1245184 total_ram_blocks: 0 device_blocks: 0 written_blocks: 0 current_cpu: 0 nr_cpus: 1 tasks[nr_cpus]: 0 sub_header: 0 (n/a) sub_header_kdump: deeff0 phys_base: 0 dump_level: 0 (0x0) data_offset: 4e000 block_size: 4096 block_shift: 12 bitmap: 7f99c0b4e010 bitmap_len: 311296 dumpable_bitmap: 7f99c0b01010 byte: 0 bit: 0 compressed_page: e009a0 curbufptr: 0 page_cache_hdr[0]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df0990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[1]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df1990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[2]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df2990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[3]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df3990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[4]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df4990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[5]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df5990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[6]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df6990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[7]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df7990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[8]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df8990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[9]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: df9990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[10]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dfa990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[11]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dfb990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[12]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dfc990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[13]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dfd990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[14]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dfe990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_hdr[15]: pg_flags: 0 () pg_addr: 0 pg_bufptr: dff990 pg_hit_count: 0 page_cache_buf: df0990 evict_index: 0 evictions: 0 accesses: 0 cached_reads: 0 valid_pages: df0000 readmem: read_diskdump() crash: pv_init_ops exists: ARCH_PVOPS compressed kdump: phys_base: 0 gdb ../linux-2.6.32.12-0.7/vmlinux 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"... GETBUF(248 -> 0) GETBUF(1500 -> 1) FREEBUF(1) FREEBUF(0) <readmem: ffffffff82827aa0, KVADDR, "kernel_config_data", 32768, (ROE), 1a1bab0> <read_diskdump: addr: ffffffff82827aa0 paddr: 2827aa0 cnt: 1376> read_diskdump: SEEK_ERROR: paddr/pfn: 2827aa0/2827 !page_is_ram crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff82827aa0 type: "kernel_config_data" WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data GETBUF(248 -> 0) FREEBUF(0) GETBUF(512 -> 0) <readmem: ffffffff8281a660, KVADDR, "cpu_possible_mask", 8, (FOE), 7fff1b538678> <read_diskdump: addr: ffffffff8281a660 paddr: 281a660 cnt: 8> read_diskdump: SEEK_ERROR: paddr/pfn: 281a660/281a !page_is_ram crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff8281a660 type: "cpu_possible_mask" hltncra110731:/home/adil/crash-6.0.3 # --------------------------- BTW i tried to setup a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) on another machine and on that Virtual machine following the same setup, crash tool was working. But not on this :( Thanks, Adil On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hi Dave, >> >> > No, that's really not true.  crash-5.0.1 is two years old, which is >> > ancient >> > by crash standards.  And it's very easy to upgrade: >> > >> >  $ wget http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash-6.0.3.tar.gz >> >  ... >> >  $ cd crash-6.0.3 >> >  $ make >> >  ... >> >  $ >> >> I tried but at the end build failed: >> ----------------------- >> cc -c -g -DX86_64  -DGDB_7_3_1 -g -O2 main.c >> In file included from main.c:18: >> defs.h:43:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory >> ----------------------- >> >> Any idea which package it needed to get the zlib.h >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Regards, >> Adil > > Right -- sorry about that.... > > > Dave