Bug 595333 - crash fails to start on recent live kernels
Summary: crash fails to start on recent live kernels
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: crash
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Anderson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-24 11:59 UTC by Jeff Layton
Modified: 2014-06-18 07:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-16 22:27:15 UTC
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Description Jeff Layton 2010-05-24 11:59:29 UTC
Latest crash version in fedora is 4.0.9-2.fc12. That version fails to start on F14 kernels:

----------------------[snip]----------------
# crash

crash 4.0.9-2.fc12
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009  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
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This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help warranty" for details.
 
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"...

crash: cannot determine idle task addresses from init_tasks[] or runqueues[]

crash: cannot resolve "init_task_union"
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I built a 5.0.4 version from Dave A's people page and it works fine.

As a side note, the crash SRPM on his page should probably also have BuildRequires for flex and bison -- I needed both in order for the build to work.

Comment 1 Dave Anderson 2010-05-24 13:05:05 UTC
> Latest crash version in fedora is 4.0.9-2.fc12. That version fails to start on
> F14 kernels:

Yeah, it's been due for an upgrade for some time now.  But given that
Fedora kernels may always change kernel versions "tomorrow", it's never
guaranteed to work, and the upstream version is always preferable
regardless.

> As a side note, the crash SRPM on his page should probably also have
> BuildRequires for flex and bison -- I needed both in order for the build to
> work.

They are only required for the sial.so extension module to build,
and for that reason, it was deemed preferable to just fail the individual
module build with the bison/flex error message as opposed to forcing
everybody else to have those packages installed, which the vast majority
of crash users have zero interest in.

+ cp extensions/sial.so /root/upstream/BUILDROOT/crash-5.0.4-0.x86_64/usr/lib64/crash/extensions
cp: cannot stat `extensions/sial.so': No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ubJZfY (%install)

However, I see that the "cp" command should be conditional...

Thanks Jeff,
  Dave

Comment 2 Dave Anderson 2010-07-20 18:11:39 UTC
Upstream crash version 5.0.6 is available in the Fedora Rawhide devel branch:

  build: dist-f14 crash-5.0.6-2.fc14
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=184746

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:42:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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