address. 0x7EC44A14 The kdump kernel boot param root=/dev/ram0 nmi_watchdog=0 irqpoll maxcpus=1 reset_devices memmap=exactmap memmap=640K at 0K memmap=130412K at 16384K elfcorehdr=146796K With the information that cp fails at file offset 1989877760 bytes which maps to physical address 0x7EC44A14 how do I further analyze the issue.? Any pointers ? ---------------------- snippet of readelf -l /proc/vmcore output ------------------------------- Enter shell command >/sbin/readelf -l /proc/vmcore Elf file type is CORE (Core file) Entry point 0x0 There are 23 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x000000007699f5ec 0x000000007ec32000 0x0000000000013000 0x0000000000013000 RWE 0 LOAD 0x00000000769b25ec 0x000000007ec46000 0x0000000000002000 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard at bwalle.de> wrote: > > Am 10.02.2010 um 19:46 schrieb Sujit V: > >> Tried readelf on the /proc/vmcore but gave the below error. The >> readelf worked correctly on another binary. >> >> kdump shell>/sbin/readelf -l /proc/vmcore >> readelf: Error: Cannot stat input file /proc/vmcore. > > My only guess is that readelf has no large file support (see http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-07/msg00087.html). Could you please execute "strace readelf -l /proc/vmcore"? > > > Regards, > Bernhard > >