Description of problem: The RHEL5.5 errata version of crash should be rebased to the current upstream version of the crash utility. It is far more efficient, and far safer, to rebase to the upstream version than to attempt to selectively backport the patches required for the current set of bugzillas approved for RHEL5.5. Furthermore, the new features and other fixes that have been applied to the upstream version make the tool significantly more useful than the current RHEL5 version. I can confidently state the above primarily because I am the original author, the upstream maintainer, and the Red Hat maintainer of the crash utility. As the upstream maintainer, one of my primary goals is, and always has been, to maintain backwards-compatibility whenever new fixes or features are applied. The risk of regression is less with a rebase than it would be with selective backports because the RHEL5.5 bugzilla-required fixes are based upon the state of the upstream version. It should be noted that nothing goes into the upstream version without my approval, and my testing. I perform all my testing on RHEL5 systems, and test changes against a sample set of RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and upstream/Fedora kernel crash dumps. Furthermore, as a practical manner, the current RHEL5 version of crash needs several updates to support upstream kernels. That is an example of the kinds of changes that are continually folded into the upstream version of crash as the underlying kernel itself changes. Given the onset of RHEL6, it only makes sense that the RHEL5 version of crash can be used with the oncoming RHEL6 kernels. And lastly, there have been several new debugging features added to the upstream version that can only serve to aid our support and development personnel in dealing with customer crashes more efficiently. Details regarding recent fixes, features and enhancements can be found in: http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
MODIFIED: CVS Tag: crash-4_1_2-1_el5
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump facilities. With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 4.1.2. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0230.html