[Crash-utility] Anyone seen this problem or what did i miss?)

[Dave Anderson]

Jay Lan wrote:
> Dave Anderson wrote:
>> Jay Lan wrote:
>>> I tested in a rhel5.1 root with:
>>>    2.6.24 kernel
>>>    kexec-tools-testing-20080227
>>>    crash-4.0-5.1
>>>
>>>
>>> Crash failed to initialize:
>>>
>>> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a0000001007f0868  type:
>>> "kernel_config_data"
>>> WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data
>>> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a000000100f370b0  type:
>>> "xtime"
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  - jay
>> I'm not sure what may have changed in the ia64 world between
>> 2.6.18 and 2.6.24, but here's some things you can look at.
> 
> I found a patch posted by Jonathan Lim to the fastboot list in
> March 2007:
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-March/013645.html
> 
> I applied his patch to kexec-tools-testing-20080227 and it indeed
> fixed the problem on IA64.
> 
> But Magnum Dammn came back with a revised patch and had some
> discussion exchange with Vivek on the thread. Unfortunately,
> Magnum since then did not work on kexec/kdump any more before
> a final version was agreed upon.
> 
> - jay
>

It would probably be worth resurrecting this thread on the
kexec at lists.infradead.org mailing list.  That fastboot list
seems to be dying a slow death.

Thanks,
   Dave