[Crash-utility] Problem opening core file.

[Rohit Persai]

Dave Anderson wrote:
> Rohit Persai wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am trying to open a core file but getting following error. I am 
>> sure that I am using right kernel + kernel-debuginfo package. As 
>> following command on crash log shows version on kernel in use.
>> # cat crash-log | grep -i 2.4.21
>> EIP is at check_pgt_cache [kernel] 0x19 (2.4.21-47.ELsmp)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------snip-from-system-on-which-i-am-opening-core-file----------------------------------------- 
>>
>> # uname -r
>> 2.4.21-47.ELsmp
>>
>> # crash /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp.debug 
>> /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp case_1843132_vmcore
>>
>> crash 4.0-6.3
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>> WARNING: invalid value: smp_num_cpus: -1070037996
>> crash: /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp.debug and 
>> case_1843132_vmcore do not match!
>>
>> Usage:
>>  crash [-h [opt]][-v][-s][-i file][-d num] [-S] [mapfile] [namelist] 
>> [dumpfile]
>>
>> Enter "crash -h" for details.
>> ----------------------------------------snip-from-system-on-which-i-am-opening-core-file----------------------------------------- 
>>
>>
>> Question: Why am I getting following message if I am using right set 
>> of packages.
>> crash: /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp.debug and 
>> case_1843132_vmcore do not match!
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Rohit.
>
> Sorry for the delay -- I'm back from a 2-week break...
>
> Perhaps you've already resolved this issue, but if not, it does
> appear that you're doing everything correctly.  But when the
> value for "smp_num_cpus" was read from the vmcore, it's reading
> an integer value of -1070037996 (c0388414).  Since that's
> clearly nonsensical, it makes no sense continuing.
>
> Since RHEL3 used that brain-dead split vmlinux/vmlinux.debug
> format, you'd get a "CRC value does not match" error message
> if those two files weren't in sync.  And if the host machine
> and the vmlinux/vmlinux.debug/vmcore triplet weren't the same
> architecture, you'd get a  "machine type mismatch" error message.
>
> The only other thing I can suggest is to do this:
>
>   # strings /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp | grep "Linux version"
>   ...
>   # strings case_1843132_vmcore | grep "Linux version"
>   ...
>
> and make sure the strings match exactly -- including the
> build dates.
>
> It would be easy to say "it must be a corrupt vmcore", so
> I won't.  But's about as much help as I can come up with.
>
> Dave
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Thank you very much for replying. Actully I was using wrong debuginfo 
package for opening the core file. One of my peer (Nitin Bansal) helped 
me figure out.