https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463523 Summary: Crash tool gives error while analysing vmcore in opensuse 11.1 Final, ppc64 Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: PowerPC-64 OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bugproxy@us.ibm.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner Partner ID: LTC 50852 =Comment: #0================================================= Pavan Naregundi - While analysing vmcore in opensuse 11.1 Final, ppc64 crash gives error as shown below ===================== # crash -d 1 vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64 vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64.debug vmcore crash 4.0-7.4 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. WARNING: machine type mismatch: crash utility: PPC vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64: PPC64 NOTE: You might want to try the 'crosscrash' tool which is distributed in the 'crosscrash' package on SUSE Linux. crash: vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64: not a xen ELF core file crash: diskdump / compressed kdump: dump does not have panic dump header crash: vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64: not a supported file format Usage: crash [-h [opt]][-v][-s][-i file][-d num] [-S] [mapfile] [namelist] [dumpfile] Enter "crash -h" for details ======================== As mentioned in 'NOTE' of above message used "crosscrash" to produce the following error ======================== # crosscrash -d 1 vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64 vmlinux-2.6.27.7-9-ppc64.debug vmcore crosscrash 4.0-7.4 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. compressed kdump: header->utsname.machine: Retrying with different block size: 0 crosscrash: diskdump / compressed kdump: cannot malloc block_size buffer ======================== Error in crash tool seems like 64 bit compatibility issue of the 32bit crash tool # file /usr/bin/crash /usr/bin/crash: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped # uname -a Linux llm62 2.6.27.7-9-ppc64 #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux # rpm -qf /usr/bin/crash crash-4.0.7.4-8.3 CPU type: power 6 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.