[Crash-utility] crash without namelist?

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----- "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004 gmail com> wrote:
>> But I think sometimes we only have the System.map file in hand,
>> without the namelist. Can we do anything with that? Because in many
>> cases only some restricted operations are enough to debug the crashed
>> dump.
>
>The basic design of the crash utility is that it is essentially
>a huge wrapper around the embedded gdb module, taking advantage 
>of gdb's allowance of an alternative user interface.  So during

But is it really so that one can not get _any_ useful info from the dump
without the namelist?
Most of the time just the trace is all I need (i.e. that which is
displayed on the console in a panic). That info is not accessible
conveniently because a) the console can only show the last bits of it
and b) I'd rather autoreboot on a panic.
I know I can use netconsole, but it would just be more convenient if I
could read this from the core file easily.