On 08/20/2015 04:04 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > The vmcoreinfo data strings were initially located in an ELF note in /proc/vmcore. > When makedumpfile -c was run on /proc/vmcore, it copied those ELF notes into the > compressed kdump header, and you have dumped them above. > > So it seems to be an issue with vmcore-dmesg. If you change the core_collector > variable to "cp" or "scp", it will copy /proc/vmcore unmodified to the target > location. Then you can run vmcore-dmesg on that file to debug it. This is very, very odd. Obtaining a raw vmcore with cp and then running vmcore-dmesg does show the dmesg log. But at the same time, the vmcore-dmesg.txt file is empty and its name is vmcore-dmesg-incomplete.txt... > > Dave > >