i386 dumps unusable w/ kernels > 4.4
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crash (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| kexec-tools (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If you capture a kernel crashdump on i386 after 4.4 (4.8 & 4.10 tested), they cannot be used by debugged with crash (see log below). crash reports that the dump & the debug kernel do not match, even though they are from the same build. This works fine on amd64.
root@kdump-
crash 7.1.8
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crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1c344b4 type: "possible"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_possible_map
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1c344ac type: "present"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_present_map
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1c344b0 type: "online"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_online_map
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1c344a8 type: "active"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_active_map
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1b7dd64 type: "pv_init_ops"
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1d7a820 type: "shadow_timekeeper xtime_sec"
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c1b6a0a4 type: "init_uts_ns"
crash: /usr/lib/
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| dann frazier (dannf) wrote | #1 |
| Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote Missing required logs. | #2 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| tags: | added: zesty |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
In order to eliminate makedumpfile as the cause, I moved the makedumpfile binary out of the way so that kdump-tools would fallback to just copying all of /proc/vmcore. crash still reports an error, albeit a different one:
root@kdump-
crash 7.1.8
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Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited
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Copyright (C) 2005, 2011 NEC Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
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crash: cannot determine base kernel version
WARNING: cannot read linux_banner string
crash: /usr/lib/
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