On 02/15/12 06:36, Dave Anderson wrote:

I'm not too surprised. In the world of back-end clustered storage systems, updating systems is a massive security/stability concern. Consequently, new fangled stuff from less than a decade ago get incorporated slowly. :) Analysis tools, however, can be (and are!!) updated. > That being said, it's news to me that backtraces cannot be generated > for the active tasks from LKCD dumpfiles, unless it's some kind of > "live dump" or something? Was there a panic or oops? What's the > last thing shown by the "log" command? Yes, it is a live dump, if that's what you mean by a crash dump.

Figuring out why ptlrpc_invalidate_import() is struggling is what I signed up for learning how to do. Coercing crash into giving me stack traces for live/onproc processes is what I was hoping you would please be kind enough to help me figure out. My solution is the script (attached) that requires me to type four commands: > crash> ! bash live-bt.sh > crash> < c-cmd > crash> < c-cmd > crash> < c-cmd