* Daniel Li <dli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-13 22:05]: > Bernhard Walle wrote: >> * Daniel Li <dli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-13 21:34]: >> >>> From what I saw, 'not stripped' doesn't mean it has the .debug_info >>> section. After I compiled a kernel with '-g' flag and feed that to crash, >>> that error message went away. >>> >> >> That's necessary on SLES9. On SLES10, we have -debuginfo packages. > > I tried it yesterday on my SLES 10 box. First of all, I couldn't find the > 'kernel-smp-debug' or any 'debuginfo' package, the only one I could find > was called 'kernel-debug', which claimed to have the debug kernel. So I > installed that package and found the debug linux image it installed under > /boot. For the debug kernel, you have to install kernel-debug-debuginfo to have debugging information available. For the location, the debuginfo packages are not on CD/DVD but only available as online repository. If you have problems finding the location, please contact support (yes, that's nothing for this mailinglist here, but I hope Dave doesn't remove me from the list now ;-)). You can always use the KOTD [1], BTW. > However, when I attempted to feed that kernel to crash, it freezed > my host. I tried it both with the smp kernel and default kernel, and both > times the host freezed up. Right now I'm planning to patch up the system > (current version is 2.6.16.46-0.12) to the latest updates and hope this > might take care of the problem. This looks like a bug. Thanks, Bernhard [1] ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/SLES10_SP1_BRANCH -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
