Kees Cook wrote: > 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 >
Hmm, you missed the part about me being lazy :) So, if I produce linux-image-debug packages, then the argument about being server specific is moot (as is the disk space issue). There is already a linux-crashdump meta package, which I could abstract to be flavour specific as well as add the linux-image-debug dependency. Do you think that would be sufficient? rtg -- Tim Gardner [email protected] -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
