Hello, * Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> [2007-05-24 20:31]: > The crash utility hides the details of there being a separate debug > file in the same way the gdb does when working with a binary executable > that has a separate debuginfo file. It tries *not* to be ambiguous, > i.e., the point is to stay true to the "crash vmlinux vmcore" model. It's documented in the GDB documentation: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_16.html#SEC154 > That being said, does any other distro besides RHEL3 actually use > the split vmlinux/vmlinux.debug format? Thankfully Red Hat came > to its senses in RHEL4 and beyond... SUSE uses the split out debug information, starting from SLES 10 (also openSUSE). It makes sense on architectures that don't need a separate, bootable kernel image (like x86_64 and i586) but can boot the ELF file directly such as PPC and IA64. Thanks, Bernhard
