I can't find this file in my system? Can you help me with it? On 8 May 2017 at 07:11, Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai at wm.jp.nec.com> wrote: > Hello, > >>Hi I am a university student, and have made some changes to >>makedumpfile to produce a gzipped output of core dump. The issue I'm >>facing is that the output i get from makedumpfile (after it completes >>successfully) is vmcore-incomplete.gzip. >> >>But this file is not being renamed to vmcore.gzip (even thought the >>dump the complete as I verified it by loading into CRASH utility). Can >>someone please point out to me the changes I should make to solve this >>bug (or can point to the code where this renaming is done). > > makedumpfile doesn't have such renaming mechanism, it just name the dump > as user specify. I guess "vmcore-incomplete" you said is came from kexec-tools. > For example, kexec-tools of RHEL7 generate the code below for dump-capture kernel: > > 110 echo "kdump: saving vmcore" > 111 $CORE_COLLECTOR /proc/vmcore $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR/vmcore-incomplete || return 1 > 112 mv $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR/vmcore-incomplete $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR/vmcore > 113 sync > > $CORE_COLLECTOR is makedumpfile, so the code generate "vmcore-incomplete" > by makedumpfile and rename it to vmcore by mv. > If you want "vmcore.gzip", you should just specify vmcore.gzip for > makedumpfile. > > > Thanks, > Atsushi Kumagai >
