Bug 672867

Summary:	kernel crashdump analysis section contains errors
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Dave Allan <dallan>
Component:	deployment-guide	Assignee:	Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
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Version:	devel	CC:	kwade, stickster
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Description Dave Allan 2011-01-26 16:00:58 UTC

Description of problem:
The deployment guide at:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-kdump-crash.html

says:

yum install --enablerepo=rhel-debuginfo crash kernel-debuginfo

which results in the following error:

Error getting repository data for rhel-debuginfo, repository not found

Dropping the --enablerepo argument says kernel-debuginfo isn't found.  The package appears to be called kernel-debug now, but the files installed by the kernel-debuginfo package are not where the document says they should be.

The document says to start crash with a command similar to the following:

crash /var/crash/timestamp/vmcore /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux

but the /usr/lib/debug directory does not exist.

Comment 1 Dave Allan 2011-01-26 18:49:58 UTC

So, more information is available in BZ 672874, but the mistake in the docs
turns out to be that

yum install --enablerepo=rhel-debuginfo crash kernel-debuginfo

should be:

yum install crash
debuginfo-install kernel

The debuginfo package creates /usr/lib/debug..., so the rest of the section of
the deployment guide is correct.  Many thanks to Dave Anderson for gently
pointing this out to me.

Comment 2 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-01-26 22:30:25 UTC

Hi Dave, and thank you for reporting this.

Fixed in the development version, commit b7a251af.

Comment 3 Dave Allan 2011-01-27 02:47:32 UTC

great--thanks for the quick turnaround!