[Crash-utility] Crash issue when loading vmcore

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Paul-Kenji Cahier Furuya" <pkc at f1-photo.com> wrote:

> On 08/23/2010 22:08, Dave Anderson wrote:
> >
> > ----- "Paul-Kenji Cahier Furuya"<pkc at f1-photo.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> I forgot that I had recompiled the kernel between my first mail and your
> >> answer, so here's an up to date dump with the current kernel and last
> >> dump done with it:
> >
> > No problem -- I still need the output of the 3 requests in my last
> > email, plus one more question: can you run crash on the live system?
> Wouldn't running it live require a physical/serial tty? I do not have
> such since this is a remote computer.
> If not, please tell me what course of action to take to do that.

Well, yes, you'd have to be able to log into the machine, and
then just run:

  # crash 

or if the /vmlinux file is not in a common location, do this:

  # crash /path/to/vmlinux

And that presumes you've got crash installed on the system as well.

Dave