[Crash-utility] crash failing with CentOS 5 under VMware

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:54:58PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > There is an inconsistency between the
> > 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plus kernel
> > and the running kernel 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.  I don't know what the
> > "centos.plus"
> > vmlinux kernel is, but its symbols apparently do no match the
> > 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5
> > kernel that is running.
> > Is the system running a bona fide RHEL5 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5
> > kernel, and you're using a centos-generated kernel-debuginfo
> > package?
> 
> No, this is a CentOS 5.7 installation.  These RPMs came from the CentOS
> official repos.  I was concerned by the apparrent disrepancy in the
> names of the files.
> 
> > Anyway, you could try what the error message suggests.  There is probably a
> > "/boot/System.map-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5" on that system, and presuming so,
> > try this on the live system:
> 
> I'll go looking for such a file, and explore your other suggestions.
> Thanks for the feedback!

I note that here: 

  http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/x86_64/

they have both the "centos.plus" version that you have installed, as well as
what would appear to be the one that you actually want:

  kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plus.x86_64.rpm  11-Jan-2012 18:57  200M
  kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.x86_64.rpm              11-Jan-2012 01:59  179M

I would install the kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
and its associated kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-274.7.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
packages.

Dave