Hello,

I tried to test the crash utility from CentOS 8 with following requirements:

• First machine (VMware) on which CentOS 8 is installed and on which I performed a fake crash using SysRq. After reboot, The /var/crash was populated with the vmcore.
• Second machine (Server) on which CentOS 8 is also installed and on which I wish to analyze the crash.

Both machine have the same CentOS build installed.

I imported System.map-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64, vmcore and vmlinux.debuginfo from first machine to a directory on the second machine.

When I run ‘crash’, I have following messages (see below), but no ‘crash>’ prompt.

What have I missed ? What Should I check ?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Patrick Agrain

[root@lxkmg-pag-ale test64]# /usr/bin/crash System.map-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64 vmlinux.debuginfo vmcore

crash 7.2.6-2.el8

Copyright (C) 2002-2019  Red Hat, Inc.

Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010  IBM Corporation

Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012  Fujitsu Limited

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.

Copyright (C) 2005, 2011  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.

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6

Copyright (C) 2013 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"...

please wait... (patching 92149 gdb minimal_symbol values)  [Vanished after a few seconds]

[root@lxkmg-pag-ale test64]#