----- "Anirudh Srinivasan" <srianirudh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am implementing a netdump . I crashed one sever and got the vmcore > file in /var/crash/vmcore , then i checked the kernel version through > > strings vmcore | fgrep -m1 'Linux' > Linux version 2.4.21-40.ELsmp ( bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-54)) #1 SMP Thu Feb > 2 22:22:39 EST 2006 > > So now while installing the kernel-debuginfo , it should match the > version above i.e something like > "kernel-debuginfo.2.4.21.40.ELsmp.i368.rpm" > > But i installed the closest one and that was > kernel-debuginfo.2.4.21.40.EL.i386.rpm but after installing them i > should have /usr/lib/debug/module/vmlinux , which i could'nt see them > . OK, so you're running -- and have crashed -- a RHEL3 i686 smp kernel, and the vmcore pinpoints the version as version 2.4.21-40.ELsmp. So you need to install the kernel-debuginfo-2.4.21-40.EL.i686.rpm (not the "i386" version), which contains the vmlinux debug files for that kernel version: $ rpm -qpl kernel-debuginfo-2.4.21-40.EL.i686.rpm | grep vmlinux /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-40.EL.debug /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-40.ELhugemem.debug /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-40.ELsmp.debug $ And the relevant file in your case would be located in /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-40.ELsmp.debug. > > Can anyone give me the link to the rpm i am looking for , or suggest > some idea. ( the server that i am dumping vmcore is version 5 ) > > I have bunch of server with version 2 and version 3 and version 4 in > my production environment for which i have to configure netdump to > collect the vmcore in version 5 server . That's fine -- one way you can get the specific debuginfo package you need is by going to my people page: http://people.redhat.com/anderson 1. Click on the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux debuginfo RPMs" link. 2. On that next page, in the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3" box, click on the "AS: i386" link. That will bring you to the ftp site that contains *all* RHEL3 packages, so you have to search for: kernel-debuginfo-2.4.21-40.EL.i686.rpm Again, make sure you get the "i686" version. Hope this helps, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
