This is a SLES9sp3 lcrash dump... on and x86_64 box... Should I expect crash to work here (using a -g kernel)? Any/all help/hints are appreciated. - jim ~/crash-4.0-4.5/crash -d 9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.244/vmlinux ~/dale/dump.1 crash 4.0-4.5 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 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. crash: xc_core_elf_verify: not a xen ELF core file crash: diskdump: dump does not have panic dump header dump_header: dh_magic_number: a8190173618f23ed (DUMP_MAGIC_NUMBER) dh_version: 9 (LKCD_DUMP_V9) dh_header_size: 742 dh_dump_level: f (DUMP_LEVEL_HEADER|DUMP_LEVEL_KERN|DUMP_LEVEL_USED|DUMP_LEVEL_ALL) dh_page_size: 4096 dh_memory_size: 1010052 dh_memory_start: 10000000000 dh_memory_end: a8190173618f23ed dh_num_pages: 1031926 dh_panic_string: NMI watchdog detected dh_time: Wed Aug 1 13:39:37 2007 dh_utsname_sysname: Linux dh_utsname_nodename: ibmdyn2038 dh_utsname_release: 2.6.5-7.244-smp dh_utsname_version: #1 SMP Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005 dh_utsname_machine: x86_64 dh_utsname_domainname: cae_ibmdy dh_current_task: 10002c7e9b0 dh_dump_compress: 2 (DUMP_COMPRESS_GZIP) dh_dump_flags: 80000000 () dh_dump_device: 0 found DUMP_DH_END gdb /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.244/vmlinux GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB 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. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "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: ffffffff8036cda0, KVADDR, "kernel_config_data", 32768, (ROE), 13535a0> WARNING: could not find MAGIC_START! <readmem: ffffffff8058f210, KVADDR, "xtime", 16, (FOE), 9062b0> <readmem: ffffffff803d42e0, KVADDR, "system_utsname", 390, (ROE), 90689c> <readmem: ffffffff803d42c8, KVADDR, "linux_banner", 8, (FOE), 7fbfffd5d8> WARNING: invalid linux_banner pointer: 0 <readmem: 0, KVADDR, "accessible check", 8, (ROE|Q), 7fbfffd250> crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 0 type: "accessible check" crash: /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.244/vmlinux and /root/dale/dump.1 do not match! Usage: crash [-h [opt]][-v][-s][-i file][-d num] [-S] [mapfile] [namelist] [dumpfile] Enter "crash -h" for details.