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Description of problem: The RHEL6.2 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 requested for RHEL6.2. Furthermore, the new features and other fixes that have been applied to the upstream version make the tool significantly more useful than the current RHEL6 version. It should also be noted that RHEL6 MRG-RT kernel does not work with the current RHEL6 version of the crash utility because of the later kernel version it uses, and requires the upstream version. As the owner and upstream maintainer, one of my primary goals is, and always has been, to maintain backwards-compatibility whenever new fixes or features are applied. Therefore the risk of regression is less with a rebase than it would be with selective backports because the RHEL6.2 bugzilla-requested 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 RHEL6 systems, and test changes against a sample set of RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, upstream and Fedora kernel crash dumps. 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): crash-5.1.1-2.el6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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, kdump and virsh dump facilities. With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.x. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump and virsh dump facilities. -With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.x. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html+With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.7. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump and virsh dump facilities. -With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.7. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html+With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.8. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1648.html