Bug 869249
| Summary: | crash is incompatible with kernels 3.5+ | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Roman Kagan <rkagan> |
| Component: | crash | Assignee: | Dave Anderson <anderson> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | anderson, edfelt |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-12-20 15:44:07 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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crash-6.1.0-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/crash-6.1.0-1.fc17 System/Applicable package installation (I just set this up a few days ago): [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# uname -a Linux cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64.debug #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:18:25 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# rpm -qa | grep debug kernel-debug-devel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 kernel-debuginfo-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info-1.1.31-4.fc17.noarch kernel-debug-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# crash -v crash 6.0.6-1.fc17 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 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. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu". Could this bug also be related to the following error I am getting? Before applying the rpm fix listed above I got: [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# crash crash 6.0.6-1.fc17 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 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. /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81806d78 type: "cpu_possible_mask" [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# After installing crash-6.1.0-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm I now get: [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# crash -v crash 6.1.0-1.fc17 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 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. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu". [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# crash crash 6.1.0-1.fc17 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 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. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64.debug/vmlinux DUMPFILE: /dev/crash CPUS: 2 DATE: Sat Oct 27 11:30:22 2012 UPTIME: 04:13:33 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.21, 0.21, 0.27 TASKS: 399 NODENAME: cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 RELEASE: 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64.debug VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:18:25 UTC 2012 MACHINE: x86_64 (2793 Mhz) MEMORY: 3.9 GB PID: 7308 COMMAND: "crash" TASK: ffff88001dbea450 [THREAD_INFO: ffff88001ce36000] CPU: 1 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) crash> All commands under crash now appear to work. This update appears to have fixed my issue as well. crash-6.1.0-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository. (In reply to comment #2) > > Could this bug also be related to the following error I am getting? > Before applying the rpm fix listed above I got: > > [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# crash > > crash 6.0.6-1.fc17 > Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Red Hat, Inc. > Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co > Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited > Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. > Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. > Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. > This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, > 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. > > /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... > > crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81806d78 type: > "cpu_possible_mask" > [root@cedfelt-Latitude-E6500 ~]# It's not related, but a different issue that was fixed upstream in crash-6.0.7. crash-6.1.0-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. |
Description of problem: The version of crash in F17 doesn't support kernels 3.5+ since they moved to a new log buffer infrastructure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.0.6-1.fc17 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to load a dump from the current F17 kernel: # crash /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64/vmlinux memory.dmp Actual results: ... KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64/vmlinux DUMPFILE: memory.dmp CPUS: 2 DATE: Thu Jan 1 03:00:00 1970 UPTIME: 00:31:41 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.95, 0.23, 0.11 TASKS: 106 NODENAME: localhost.localdomain RELEASE: 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 MACHINE: x86_64 (3400 Mhz) MEMORY: 1 GB PANIC: foreach: cannot determine length of symbol: log_end Expected results: Dump is loaded and log messages are available for analysis Additional info: The issue has been fixed upstream in crash-6.0.8. crash-6.1.0-1.fc19 from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=357655 installs and runs fine in F17.