Zero size vmcore on ia64

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Wed Aug 27 05:27:28 EDT 2008


Hi Jidong,

* jidong xiao [2008-08-27 17:01]:
> 
> I encountered the zero-size-vmcore issue on IA64. I remember last year
> Nanhai submitted a patch which was intended to fix this issue, and I
> noticed that patch is merged into mainline kernel. I am using
> 2.6.27-rc2, which means that patch is included in my kernel.And after
> the system
> completed rebooting, there is nothing generated in KDUMP_SAVEDIR. Let
> me know if I need to provide more information.Thanks.

Which version of kexec-tools do you use?

Please always include the kexec list (kexec at lists.infradead.org) on
kdump and kexec issues. I Cc'd it now.


Bernhard
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