The following vmcore was manually induced ([sysrq-d]) from a freshly booted hugemem kernel on a system with 64 GiB of memory: -rw-r--r-- 1 krader krader 68719480832 2007-03-09 12:18:44 /vmware/vmcore Running crash on it crash -d255 System.map-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELhugemem /vmware/vmcore \ ./usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELhugemem.debug Fails with crash: ./usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELhugemem.debug: no text and data contents Crash -d255 output is below. Is there any hope for getting this to work? We've got a customer whose system is exhibiting both hangs and panics. Until now the system hasn't been configured for crash dumps. This dump was obtained under controlled conditions to validate that we can get a complete dump. The dump process appeared to complete without error. The size of the vmcore looks reasonable. From the vmcore dmesg buffer: <6>disk_dump: Maximum block size: 16384 <6>disk_dump: total blocks required: 16515376 (header 3 + bitmap 512 + memory 16514861) <6>SysRq : Crashing the kernel by request crash 4.0-3.17 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 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 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002 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. crash: diskdump: dump does not have panic dump header vmcore_data: flags: 5 (NETDUMP_LOCAL|NETDUMP_ELF32) ndfd: 4 ofp: 48a3a4c0 header_size: 4096 num_pt_load_segments: 1 pt_load_segment[0]: file_offset: 1000 phys_start: 0 phys_end: 0 zero_fill: 0 elf_header: 8405700 elf32: 8405700 notes32: 8405734 load32: 8405754 elf64: 0 notes64: 0 load64: 0 nt_prstatus: 8405774 nt_prpsinfo: 8405814 nt_taskstruct: 84058a0 task_struct: 75ff6000 page_size: 4096 switch_stack: 0 xen_kdump_data: (unused) num_prstatus_notes: 1 nt_prstatus_percpu: 08405774 Elf32_Ehdr: e_ident: \177ELF e_ident[EI_CLASS]: 1 (ELFCLASS32) e_ident[EI_DATA]: 1 (ELFDATA2LSB) e_ident[EI_VERSION]: 1 (EV_CURRENT) e_ident[EI_OSABI]: 0 (ELFOSABI_SYSV) e_ident[EI_ABIVERSION]: 0 e_type: 4 (ET_CORE) e_machine: 3 (EM_386) e_version: 1 (EV_CURRENT) e_entry: 0 e_phoff: 34 e_shoff: 0 e_flags: 0 e_ehsize: 34 e_phentsize: 20 e_phnum: 2 e_shentsize: 0 e_shnum: 0 e_shstrndx: 0 Elf32_Phdr: p_type: 4 (PT_NOTE) p_offset: 116 (74) p_vaddr: 0 p_paddr: 0 p_filesz: 344 (158) p_memsz: 0 (0) p_flags: 0 () p_align: 0 Elf32_Phdr: p_type: 1 (PT_LOAD) p_offset: 4096 (1000) p_vaddr: c0000000 p_paddr: 0 p_filesz: 0 (0) p_memsz: 0 (0) p_flags: 7 (PF_X|PF_W|PF_R) p_align: 4096 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 144 n_type: 1 (NT_PRSTATUS) 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 023b3ee0 00000001 00000001 00000063 00000006 00000063 75ff7f7c 00000068 00000068 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 021d2010 00000060 00010002 75ff7eac 00000068 00000000 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 124 n_type: 3 (NT_PRPSINFO) 00005200 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 696c6d76 0078756e 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 8 n_type: 4 (NT_TASKSTRUCT) 75ff6000 00000000 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 4 n_type: 70000001 (NT_DISKDUMP) 00000000 crash: ./usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELhugemem.debug: no text and data contents crash: the use of a System.map file requires that the accompanying namelist argument is a kernel file built with the -g CFLAG. The namelist argument supplied in this case is a debuginfo file, which must be accompanied by the kernel file from which it was derived. -- Kurtis D. Rader, Linux level 3 support email: krader@xxxxxxxxxx IBM Integrated Technology Services DID: +1 503-578-3714 15350 SW Koll Pkwy, MS DES1-01 service: 800-IBM-SERV Beaverton, OR 97006-6063 http://www.ibm.com -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility