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

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:36:13 -0500 Dave Anderson wrote:

> 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.

fastboot list is long past dead.
kexec at lists.infradead.org is the correct one to use now.

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~Randy