https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447011 Summary: Copying /proc/vmcore failed with 'Bad address' in opensuse 11.1 Beta5 Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 5 Platform: PowerPC-64 OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: ke@novell.com ReportedBy: bugproxy@us.ibm.com QAContact: ke@novell.com Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner Partner ID: LTC 49992 =Comment: #0================================================= Pavan Naregundi <pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com> - Copying /proc/vmcore failed with following error on opensuse 11.1 beta5 bash-3.2# cp /proc/vmcore /root/vmcore cp: reading `/proc/vmcore': Bad address bash-3.2# ls -l /root/vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 7281311744 Nov 18 07:10 /root/vmcore bash-3.2# ls -l /proc/vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 7381978996 Nov 18 07:10 /proc/vmcore bash-3.2# linux-8b3h:~ # uname -a Linux linux-8b3h 2.6.27.5-2-ppc64 #1 SMP 2008-11-11 15:15:33 +0100 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux linux-8b3h:~ # Machine: P55A CPU type: power 5 =Comment: #1================================================= Sachin P. Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> - Bumping the severity to high as vmcore copy fails. =Comment: #2================================================= Sachin P. Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> - Pavan, please check with Linux on Power test team if they encountered same issue with SLES 11 Beta5 release ? =Comment: #3================================================= Pavan Naregundi <pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com> - Tried with crashkernel=256M@32M, and copying vmcore succeeded without any errors. I used crashkernel=128M@16M as mentioned in http://en.opensuse.org/Kdump before to find the error in copying of /proc/vmcore. =Comment: #4================================================= Cijurajan Kollanoor <> - The wiki http://en.opensuse.org/Kdump says: Architecture Option i386 and x86-64 crashkernel=64M@16M IA64 crashkernel=256M (small systems) or crashkernel=512M (larger systems) ppc64 crashkernel=128M@16M Please update the crash kernel parameter for ppc64 as crashkernel=256M@32M -- 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.