Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754929Ab1BOOIL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:08:11 -0500 Received: from mx3-phx2.redhat.com ([209.132.183.24]:58937 "EHLO mx3-phx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654Ab1BOOIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:08:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:07:34 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Anderson To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" , ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alex Riesen , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , David Miller Message-ID: <1786262081.42701.1297778854137.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Heads up Linux 2.6.38-rc4 compile problems. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.5.5.72] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.9_GA_2686 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Linux)/6.0.9_GA_2686) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3042 Lines: 84 ----- Original Message ----- > Hey Eric, > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Eric W. Biederman > wrote: > > > > And for completeness. When I was rebooting v2.6.38-rc4 to start running > > 795abaf1e4e188c4171e3cd3dbb11a9fcacaf505 I hit this. > > > > Sigh. I wish crash worked on something besides redhats enterprise > > kernels. Then I could use the system core file I have to do more than > > extract the dmesg. I update the upstream version of crash typically once a month. Perhaps you are using an older version? I just built a 2.6.38-rc4 kernel, and the latest version of crash (5.1.2) works OK with it: [root@hp-z400-02 ~]# crash crash 5.1.2 Copyright (C) 2002-2011 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. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 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"... KERNEL: /vmlinux DUMPFILE: /dev/mem CPUS: 6 DATE: Tue Feb 15 08:57:17 2011 UPTIME: 00:00:54 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.37, 0.10, 0.04 TASKS: 132 NODENAME: hp-z400-02.lab.bos.redhat.com RELEASE: 2.6.38-rc4 VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Feb 14 17:41:17 EST 2011 MACHINE: x86_64 (3067 Mhz) MEMORY: 4 GB PID: 1539 COMMAND: "crash" TASK: ffff8801363f9710 [THREAD_INFO: ffff880135f2a000] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) crash> Dave > > Then you should cc crash-utility@redhat.com (now cc'd) and work with > Dave Anderson (e.g. get him your vmlinux and core files, which version > of crash you're using and how it fails). Dave does an amazing job of > working through crash issues which are reported against upstream > kernels -- the key first step is the report. > > Mike > > -- > Crash-utility mailing list > Crash-utility@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/