Hi Everyone,

I am just trying load a kernel and System.map file into crash.

crash  vmlinux System.map

I get:

crash 5.1.7

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GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...

crash: vmlinux: no debugging data available

However, the System.map file reads fine and “nm vmlinux” shows the symbols as well.

A side note that this is a linux 2.4 kernel.

Is linux 2.4 not supported or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Reinoud.