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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>I have been
working on back-porting kexec/kdump functionality from 2.6.13 vanilla kernel to
RHEL4, Update 2 kernel (version 2.6.9-22).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>As part of
that, when I try to invoke "crash" on a vmcore generated, I get the following
error in "crash" tool:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=233200414-17042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>[root
crash-4.0-2.23]# ./crash /boot/System.map-2.6.9-kdump-1
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9-kdump-1/linux- 2.6.9/vmlinux
/root/vmcore</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>crash
4.0-2.23<BR>Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red Hat,
Inc.<BR>Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation<BR>Copyright (C)
1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co<BR>Copyright (C) 2005 Fujitsu
Limited<BR>Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation<BR>Copyright (C) 1999,
2002 Silicon Graphics, Inc.<BR>Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.<BR>This program is free software, covered by the
GNU General Public License,<BR>and you are welcome to change it and/or
distribute copies of it under<BR>certain conditions. Enter "help copying"
to see the conditions.<BR>This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter
"help warranty" for details.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>GNU gdb
6.1<BR>Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<BR>GDB is free software,
covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are<BR>welcome to change it
and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.<BR>Type "show copying"
to see the conditions.<BR>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type
"show warranty" for details.<BR>This GDB was configured as
"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>crash: read
error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff813a8200 type:
"xtime"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006>[root crash-4.0-2.23]# </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>[root crash-4.0-2.23]#
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>I tried with
both crash-4.0-2.15 as well as crash-4.0-2.23. Same result.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>- Should I
be re-building crash as part of the back-port?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>- Is crash
capable </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006>of handing vmcore's generated by
kdump?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>- Can
someone suggest how I can make progress to get crash to work for
this?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=233200414-17042006>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=233200414-17042006>-
Kishore</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>