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From: thayumker@gmail.com (Thayumanavar S)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Debug Kernel Crash
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:28:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim_iX2TnqTsXQjLty39_heb+96GvmjUkXJ63C2E@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikJxxBCxgucaYo-ug67B9WXKgg-KYT6jt5aGtai@mail.gmail.com>

> kernel. following are the
> commands am using. Can some one point, if there is any thing wrong with
> this.
> chkconfig kdump on
> /etc/init.d/kdump start
> kexec -l --append="`cat /proc/cmdline`"
> --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.10-kdump /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-kdump
> kexec -e
> works fine and loads the kernel successfully, i will be able to see starting
> new kernel in the shell
> chkconfig kdump on
> /etc/init.d/kdump start
> kexec -p --append="`cat /proc/cmdline`" --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.10
> -kdump
> ?/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.10
> -kdump
> i simulate the panic by using
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> which just crash the kernel and system hangs, and it does not show any
> message?starting new kernel.
does /var/crash or kdump target directory as mentioned in
/etc/kdump.conf exists?
sometime it may be a while before it starts to dump if memory on
machine is huge and
you have set kdump level to dump everything.

thx,thayumanavar s.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-31  4:05 Debug Kernel Crash swathi suresh
2011-03-31  7:34 ` swathi suresh
2011-03-31 15:28   ` Thayumanavar S [this message]
2011-04-01  3:37     ` swathi suresh
2011-04-01  7:17       ` Thayumanavar S

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