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

[Dave Anderson]

Eugene Teo wrote:
> 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
Mystery solved -- that was fixed in 4.0-4.11:

  http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html#4_0_4_11

Thanks,
  Dave