[Crash-utility] Can anyone give me a hint as to what's likely going wrong here?

[James Washer]

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 

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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 
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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!

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