------- Comment From [email protected] 2018-02-26 06:02 EDT------- (In reply to comment #21) > Tested 1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.6 on 4.13.0-36-generic 16.04.4 . > Makedumpfile fails s/while/during/ kdump and kdump falls back to cp. > > # dpkg -s makedumpfile > Package: makedumpfile > Status: install ok installed > Priority: optional > Section: devel > Installed-Size: 425 > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> > Architecture: ppc64el > Version: 1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.6 > Replaces: kdump-tools (<< 1.3.4-1~) > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libdw1 (>= 0.143), libelf1 (>= 0.142), liblzo2-2, > zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), perl > Recommends: crash, kexec-tools > Description: VMcore extraction tool > This program is used to extract a subset of the memory available either > via /dev/mem or /proc/vmcore (for crashdumps). It is used to get memory > images without extra unneeded information (zero pages, userspace programs, > etc). > Original-Maintainer: Louis Bouchard <[email protected]>
===console log=== 27.528264] kdump-tools[2637]: Starting kdump-tools: * running makedumpfile -c -d 31 /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201802260113/dump-incomplete Checking for memory holes : [100.0 %] |/usr/sbin/kdump-config: line 595: 2714 Segmentation fault makedumpfile $MAKEDUMP_ARGS $vmcore_file $KDUMP_CORETEMP [ 27.648216] kdump-tools[2637]: * kdump-tools: makedumpfile failed, falling back to 'cp' [ 94.724887] kdump-tools[2637]: * kdump-tools: saved vmcore in /var/crash/201802260113 [ 95.548243] kdump-tools[2637]: * running makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201802260113/dmesg.201802260113 [ 95.662597] kdump-tools[2637]: The kernel version is not supported. [ 95.663151] kdump-tools[2637]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. [ 95.663574] kdump-tools[2637]: The dmesg log is saved to /var/crash/201802260113/dmesg.201802260113. [ 95.663992] kdump-tools[2637]: makedumpfile Completed. [ 95.664296] kdump-tools[2637]: * kdump-tools: saved dmesg content in /var/crash/201802260113 [ 95.749509] kdump-tools[2637]: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:14:41 -0600 [ 95.812644] kdump-tools[2637]: Rebooting. ==== # ls -lhrt /var/crash/201802260113/ total 4.9G -r-------- 1 root root 253G Feb 26 01:14 vmcore.201802260113 -rw------- 1 root root 103K Feb 26 01:14 dmesg.201802260113 ==== vmcore size is of RAM size, makedumpfile was failure on 16.04.4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746299 Title: update makedumpfile tool version to v1.6.3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1746299/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
