Hi Tim, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:57:50AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > I'm about to start a wiki page that describes how to install the > necessary infrastructure for Jaunty crash dump acquisition and analysis. > One file that would make analysis much easier is to have available the > original uncompressed, unstripped vmlinux. I propose modifying the > Jaunty server package such that it is stored in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. > Any objections (or better ideas) ? IMHO servers are not typically disk > space limited, so the extra couple of MB doesn't seem like an undue > burden. Plus, I'm lazy and don't really want to produce yet another > package like linux-image-server-debug.
We used to have linux-image-debug-*: $ apt-cache search linux-image-debug ... linux-image-debug-2.6.24-23-server - Linux kernel debug image for version 2.6.24 on x86/x86_64 linux-image-debug-generic - Linux kernel debug image for generic kernel image linux-image-debug-server - Linux kernel debug image for server kernel image We should just put that back, and use a Recommends to pull it in with the regular kernel. Producing the -debug kernels should (hopefully) be trivial -- it just copies out vmlinux before doing the strip/compress. In fact, if you worked with pitti, perhaps you could get dh_strip to do the work and have the -dbgsym packages built for the kernel instead, for free. I disagree that servers aren't diskspace limited -- think of little routers, etc. Why is this only for servers? Don't we want crash dumps for desktop too? -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
