[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: Louis Bouchard (louis) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Trusty) Assignee: Louis Bouchard (louis) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

This bug was fixed in the package makedumpfile - 1:1.6.0-2ubuntu1.2 --- makedumpfile (1:1.6.0-2ubuntu1.2) yakkety; urgency=medium * d/p/0003-PATCH-v2-Support-_count-_refcount-rename-in-struct-p.patch, d/p/0004-fix-readpage_elf-attempt-to-read-non-existent-page.patch Fix

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

This bug was fixed in the package makedumpfile - 1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.3 --- makedumpfile (1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.3) xenial; urgency=medium * d/p/0003-PATCH-v2-Support-_count-_refcount-rename-in-struct-p.patch, d/p/0004-fix-readpage_elf-attempt-to-read-non-existent-page.patch Fix

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-11-29 12:26 EDT--- Version 1:1.6.0-2ubuntu1.2 validated for yakkety ** Tags removed: verification-needed-yakkety ** Tags added: verification-done-yakkety -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-11-28 18:59 EDT--- Version 1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.3 validated for Xenial. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done-xenial verification-needed-yakkety -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected, Accepted makedumpfile into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.0-2ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, The fix for this issue has been uploaded for Xenial and Yakkety and is awaiting SRU approval. ** Description changed: + [SRU justification] + makedumpfile fails to execute if executed on a 4.8 kernel + + [Impact] + Unable to generate compressed kernel dumps on those platform + + [Fix]

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, Here is an update on the situation. I completed a kernel bisection between 4.7.8 and 4.8-rc1 (15 kernel builds) and identified the kernel commit that causes the problem : commit 021182e52fe01c1f7b126f97fd6ba048dc4234fd Author: Thomas Garnier Date: Tue Jun 21

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, Not at the moment : simply adding this commit allow makedumpfile to run but it generates many other error messages that are currently investigated. There is an incompatibility between makedumpfile and 4.8 kernels that make the result of makedumpfile unreliable. I am currently working with

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

** Tags removed: targetmilestone-inin--- ** Tags added: targetmilestone-inin1610 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626269 Title: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel. To

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, Yes I have found that and included it into the upcoming makedumpfile package. But there are more issues wollowing the addition of this commit that I need to identify and fix. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-September/017300.html -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

ru...@us.ibm.com, could you please test with the latest kernel package in yakkety-proposed ? The fix for the crc32 issue in the bug cited earlier is in that package. The kernel version is 4.8.0-15.16. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, This crc32 issue has been identified on s390x and resolved in the following bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1625728 I'm checking if it will also apply to ppc64el and will comment back -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

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[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Hello, I can confirm the issue with makedumpfile on amd64. However, the crc32c module issue does not appear on amd64 and the module is indeed present in the smaller initrd created for kdump (present in /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img-4.8.0-11-generic). I will investigate the makedumpfile issue with

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people

[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

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[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

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[Bug 1626269] Re: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel.

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