From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051103 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc1 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: Attempting to test netdump, so that I can find out why my machine is crashing, and oddly, the crash.o module loads... [root@x40 kernel]# lsmod | grep crash crash 3137 0 Module loads.. Messages appear in logs.. [root@x40 kernel]# tail -n 1 /var/log/messages Nov 17 16:18:02 x40 kernel: crash memory driver: version 1.0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1665_FC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot this kernel 2. service netdump restart 3. modprobe crash Actual Results: Module loads correctly Expected Results: Fire and brimstone fall from the sky ! the world comes to end end ! The kernel repents for the end is near ! I expect it to crash and the netdump to catch the vmcore Additional info:
that's not what it does :) it's the kernel side component of the 'crash' debugging utility.