[Crash-utility] crash failed on vmcore created by kdump at an IA64

[Jay Lan]

Jay Lan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saved off a vmcore from a kexec'ed crashkernel at an IA64 Altix.
> 
> When i tried to run crash (4.0-3.5) on the vmcore, it failed.
> Is there a known issue?

Mmm, i built the crash binary myself from the src.rpm. It probably
picked up mismatched kernel headers?

- jay


> 
> Thanks,
>  - jay
> 
> 
> % crash System.map* vmlinuz-2.6.18-kdump vmcore
> 
> crash 4.0-3.5
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006  Red Hat, Inc.
> Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006  IBM Corporation
> Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co
> Copyright (C) 2005  Fujitsu Limited
> Copyright (C) 2005  NEC Corporation
> Copyright (C) 1999, 2002  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
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> and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
> certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the conditions.
> This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help warranty" for details.
> 
> crash(7419): unaligned access to 0x60000000001bf1cc, ip=0x400000000026d090
> crash(7419): unaligned access to 0x60000000001bf1d4, ip=0x400000000026d090
> crash(7419): unaligned access to 0x60000000001bf1dc, ip=0x400000000026d090
> crash(7419): unaligned access to 0x60000000001bf1e4, ip=0x400000000026d090
> crash(7419): unaligned access to 0x60000000001bf1ec, ip=0x400000000026d090
> GNU gdb 6.1
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> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "ia64-unknown-linux-gnu"...
> 
> please wait... (patching 23743 gdb minimal_symbol values)
> crash: invalid (optional) structure member offsets:
> pglist_data_node_next or pglist_data_pgdat_next
>        FILE: memory.c  LINE: 11504  FUNCTION: node_table_init()
> 
> [/usr/people/jlan/bin/crash] error trace: => 4000000000231740
> 
>   4000000000231740: OFFSET_option+432
> 
> 
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