From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29] helo=relay.sgi.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KdnDh-00006w-JI for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:29 +0000 Received: from zorg.emea.sgi.com (zorg.emea.sgi.com [144.253.68.115]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211438F8113 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hedi by zorg.emea.sgi.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KdnDe-00007X-DK for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:32:26 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:32:26 +0100 From: Hedi Berriche Subject: Re: the exiting makedumpfile is almost there... :) Message-ID: <20080911143226.GT29908@sgi.com> References: <48C85836.8080606@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C85836.8080606@sgi.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: kexec@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 00:29 Jay Lan wrote: | a4700rac:/boot # date; makedumpfile -c -d31 -x | /boot/vmlinux-2.6.27-rc5-default /proc/vmcore | /mnt/sda9/diskdump/vmcore-2.6.27-rc5-default; date | Wed Sep 10 14:31:56 PDT 2008 | Can't distinguish the pgtable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | The kernel version is not supported. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | The created dumpfile may be incomplete. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Copying data : [100 %] Jay, In addition to what other folks have mentioned about giving the latest crash version a try, I'd like to point out that makedumpfile did spit a couple of warnings while creating the vmcore | Can't distinguish the pgtable. | The kernel version is not supported. | The created dumpfile may be incomplete. these warnings added to the fact that later on crash choked with | NOTE: page_hash_table does not exist in this kernel | crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: e000006003108e00 type: seem to suggest that the makedumpfile warnings could be relevant to the end result. One useful experiment would be to find out whether a makdedumpfile generated vmcore, from the one you saved with cp, does exhibit the same problem. Cheers, Hedi. -- Hedi Berriche GPS Unix http://www.sgi.com/support _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec