Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 595333
crash fails to start on recent live kernels
Last modified: 2014-06-18 03:40:08 EDT
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 certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB 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. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. 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" ----------------------[snip]---------------- 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.
> 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
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
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: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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