crash (4.0-6.0.5.i386) running against a vmcore image (kernel 2.6.25-1.fc9.i686) upchucks during startup. It says something much like: crash: invalid structure member offset: task_struct_parent FILE: task.c LINE: 2150 FUNCTION: store_context() [/usr/bin/crash] error trace: 80d000b =-> 80d485e => 804506b => 81398be (The crash dump was obtained by a manual echo c > /proc/sysctl*, after the kdump ramdisk was fixed via bug #443878.) (Oh yeah, and there seems to be no "crash-devel" for rawhide? What sort of mildly-systemtap-disrupting travesty is that?)
Well, the Fedora version of the crash utility is the red-headed stepchild of crash releases. Because the kernel changes so frequently, the crash utility version there typically becomes obsolete shortly thereafter. Roland's recent linux-2.6.utrace.patch to Fedora removed the venerable task_struct.parent field, which had been there since the beginning of time. (Now *that's* a travesty...) That was reported on the crash-utility mailing list a couple weeks ago. In any case, either today or tomorrow I will be making a new upstream release on my people.redhat.com/anderson page, which I typically do about once a month. The srpm there does in fact have a crash-devel sub-package. And I will eventually get around to updating the devel version on Fedora, and when I do, I will also create the crash-devel package.
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FYI, crash 4.0-7.2 build from your people page appears to solve this problem.
Yep as does the most recent Fedora build, which is version 4.0-7: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=56268
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