the exiting makedumpfile is almost there... :)

[Hedi Berriche]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 00:29 Jay Lan wrote:
| a4700rac:/boot # date; makedumpfile -c -d31 -x
| /boot/vmlinux-2.6.27-rc5-default /proc/vmcore
| /mnt/sda9/diskdump/vmcore-2.6.27-rc5-default; date
| Wed Sep 10 14:31:56 PDT 2008
| Can't distinguish the pgtable.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| The kernel version is not supported.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| The created dumpfile may be incomplete.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Copying data                       : [100 %]

Jay,

In addition to what other folks have mentioned about giving the latest crash
version a try, I'd like to point out that makedumpfile did spit a couple of
warnings while creating the vmcore


| Can't distinguish the pgtable.
| The kernel version is not supported.
| The created dumpfile may be incomplete.

these warnings added to the fact that later on crash choked with

| NOTE: page_hash_table does not exist in this kernel
| crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: e000006003108e00  type:

seem to suggest that the makedumpfile warnings could be relevant to the
end result.

One useful experiment would be to find out whether a makdedumpfile generated
vmcore, from the one you saved with cp, does exhibit the same problem.

Cheers,
Hedi.
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Hedi Berriche
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