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From: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
To: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Dmesg not being dumped
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:09:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D6DCD6.8050000@kyup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497907178.20184517.1440075877293.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>



On 08/20/2015 04:04 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
> The vmcoreinfo data strings were initially located in an ELF note in /proc/vmcore.
> When makedumpfile -c was run on /proc/vmcore, it copied those ELF notes into the
> compressed kdump header, and you have dumped them above.
> 
> So it seems to be an issue with vmcore-dmesg.  If you change the core_collector
> variable to "cp" or "scp", it will copy /proc/vmcore unmodified to the target
> location.  Then you can run vmcore-dmesg on that file to debug it.

This is very, very odd. Obtaining a raw vmcore with cp and then running
vmcore-dmesg does show the dmesg log. But at the same time, the
vmcore-dmesg.txt file is empty and its name is
vmcore-dmesg-incomplete.txt...

> 
> Dave
>  
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5.1440010802.20553.kexec@lists.infradead.org>
2015-08-19 20:38 ` Dmesg not being dumped Dave Anderson
2015-08-20  6:52   ` Nikolay Borisov
2015-08-20 13:04     ` Dave Anderson
2015-08-21  8:09       ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2015-08-24 13:03         ` Dave Anderson
2015-08-24 14:17           ` Nikolay Borisov
2015-08-19  6:21 Nikolay Borisov
2015-08-19  9:02 ` Baoquan He
2015-08-19 11:10   ` Nikolay Borisov
2015-08-21  4:49     ` Pratyush Anand
2015-08-21  6:28       ` Dave Young
2015-08-19 13:13 ` Minfei Huang
2015-08-19 13:40   ` Nikolay Borisov
2015-08-19 14:08     ` Minfei Huang
2015-08-19 14:09       ` Nikolay Borisov

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