[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-2.11 is available

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:59 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
>   
>    Adapted a number of proposed patches: 
>    - Badari Pulavarty of IBM's implentation of support for 2.6.14 
>      ppc64 kernel's use of 4-level page tables. 
>    - Added a new "extensions" sub-directory for collecting crash 
>      command extension libaries; initially populated with the sample 
>      "echo.c" from the extend help page, along with a device-mapper 
>      related "dminfo.c" module from NEC. 
>    - Castor Fu of 3PAR's implementation of support for LKCD version
> 10, 
>      as well the handling of single-bit errors in LKCD compressed 
>      pages by trying out all possible single-bit errors.  Also his 
>      fixes for better recognizing -fomit-frame-pointer kernel builds, 
>      a stronger defense against potential bogus processor numbers 
>      associated with tasks in dumpfiles, and a fix to re-allow crash 
>      builds for gcc 2.x compilers. 
>    Fix for potential "vmcore: initialization failed" fatal error
> during 
>    initializaton when using more than just a vmlinux and vmcore
> command 
>    line arguments. 
>    Fix for diskdump.c compile failures using gcc 2.96. 
>    Update to the x86_64 pseudo-backtrace code to show as a frame the 
>    RSP, RIP and name of the function causing a kernel-mode exception 
>    frame. 
>    Fix for the x86_64 pseudo-backtrace code to not neglect to show
> the 
>    user-mode exception frame when that task subsequently took a 
>    kernel-mode exception. 
>    Exported the load_extension() and unload_extension() functions so 
>    that they can be called from an extension library. 
>   

Something is broken on the latest version of "crash".

Thanks,
Badari

elm3b157:~/crash-4.0-2.11 # ./crash

crash 4.0-2.11
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crash: invalid structure member offset: kmem_cache_s_num
       FILE: memory.c  LINE: 6197  FUNCTION: kmem_cache_init()

[./crash] error trace: 1009b6f8 => 100b0040 => 100c2dcc => 10142d8c

  10142d8c: .OFFSET_verify+140
  100c2dcc: .kmem_cache_init+324
  100b0040: .vm_init+8372
  1009b6f8: .main_loop+228