[Crash-utility] crash: cannot gather a stable task list via pid_hash (500 retries)

[Eugene Teo]

Hi Dave,

Dave Anderson wrote:
> Eugene Teo wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I tried to run crash on Fedora 8's kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 x86_64, and
>> it has errors that look like the following:
>>
>> [...]
>> crash: duplicate task in pid_hash: ffff81012f0811d0
>> crash: duplicate task in pid_hash: ffff81012f0811d0
>> crash: duplicate task in pid_hash: ffff81012f0811d0
>> crash: duplicate task in pid_hash: ffff81012f0811d0
>> crash: duplicate task in pid_hash: ffff81012f0811d0
>>
>> crash: cannot gather a stable task list via pid_hash (500 retries)
>>
>> I ran crash with -d7, and uploaded the log for debugging:
>> http://hera.kernel.org/~eugeneteo/crash.log
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eugene
> 
> Hi Eugene,
> 
> I can't reproduce this one -- here on a freshly-installed x86_64
> running 2.6.24.3-12.fc8:

I'm running 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 x64 now, with crash 4.0-6.1, and it works.
I realised that I was using crash 4.0-4.6.2 which is the one from the
Fedora 8 repository.

$ rpmq crash
crash-4.0-4.6.2.x86_64

Thanks,
Eugene