Hello, Thanks for pointing that. 'help -D' is a good entry point . Best regards, Patrick Agrain -----Message d'origine----- De : crash-utility-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:crash-utility-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Kazuhito Hagio Envoyé : jeudi 11 février 2021 23:45 À : Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development <crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx> Objet : EXT: Re: Is there a way to validate the coherency of a kdump-compressed dumpfile ? ** External email - Please consider with caution ** Hi Patrick, On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:27 PM Agrain Patrick <patrick.agrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I’m trying to setup an analyze procedure (with scripts) and would like to ‘check’ the dumpfile before starting the interactive mode of ‘crash’. > > Is there a ‘crash’ option, command that would just : > Return a status to say ‘dumpfile is OK to be processed by crash’. This should need to finish session initialization, and > Display a header that I could parse. "help -D" command displays the dumpfile's header. So I think the exit status and output of this might help, but it takes some time as you know. $ echo 'help -D' | crash -s vmlinux vmcore Thanks, Kazu > Or ? > > Or should I grab directly in the dumpfile (Hmm… kdump-compressed seems not to be easy to parse) ? > More possibilities with an ELF formatted dumpfile ? > > Thanks. > Best regards, > Patrick Agrain > -- > Crash-utility mailing list > Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
