Your message dated Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:19:12 +0100
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and subject line makedumpfile: fails to dump kernel log, continually appends
the line "[ 0.000000] " to dmesg file
has caused the Debian Bug report #719943,
regarding makedumpfile: fails to dump kernel log, continually appends the line
"[ 0.000000] " to dmesg file
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: makedumpfile
Version: 1.5.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
There seems to be a serious issue with makedumpfile that causes it to fail to
dump the kernel log when collecting crash dump information. Instead, the
program continues to run indefinitely, continually appending the line "[
0.000000] " to the file as it seems to attempt to dump the log, which, if left
alone for any considerable length of time, can rapidly result in a very large,
entirely useless dmesg dump file.
I have been trying to collect crash dump information for a crash that's
triggered whenever Folding@Home's FahCore_a4 attempts to resume an in-progress
work unit, however, every crash dump I've collected has had this problem. The
main dump file seems to be dumped without a problem (though crash identifies it
as a partial dump, possibly due to the kernel log being dumped into a separate
file).
I hope you can look into this issue and hopefully it can be sorted out soon.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (650, 'experimental'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500,
'saucy-updates'), (500, 'saucy-security'), (500, 'saucy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages makedumpfile depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-5
ii libc6 2.17-92
ii libdw1 0.156-1
ii libelf1 0.156-1
ii perl 5.14.2-21
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
Versions of packages makedumpfile recommends:
ii crash 7.0.1-3
ii kexec-tools 1:2.0.3-4
makedumpfile suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello,
As outlined in the previous message, version 1.5.5 with kernel 3.13 fixes the
issue.
...Louis
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Louis Bouchard
Software engineer,
Ubuntu
GPG : 429D 7A3B DD05 B6F8 AF63 B9C4 8B3D 867C 823E 7A61
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