Re: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread Andrew Walsh
Thanks for the reply. However, I believe that's an expected behavior when simulating a crash. See the following doc, which states "'c' - Will perform a system crash by a NULL pointer dereference. A crashdump will be taken if configured." https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt *Andre

Re: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread emmanuel segura
Hello as you see in the kernel trace, maybe it's kernel BUG, i don't know if there is an open bug for this, but it can be useful if you try to do the same thing with an other kernel. 2013/7/29 Andrew Walsh > Here is the output once I trigger the crash: > > > > [3518.067263] SysRq : Trigger a c

RE: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread Andrew Walsh
Here is the output once I trigger the crash: [3518.067263] SysRq : Trigger a crash [3518.070526] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [3518.071338] IP: [] sysrq_handle_crash+0xd/0x16 [3518.072163] PGD 7c781067 PUD 7c780067 PMD 0 [3518.072973] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [

Re: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread emmanuel segura
Can you show us the screen when crash happen? after you give echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger 2013/7/29 Andrew Walsh > Yes, it appears that it was loaded as expected: > > # grep -i crash /proc/iomem > > 3300-36ff : Crash kernel > > > > Thanks for the response. > > *Andrew Walsh* > --

RE: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread Andrew Walsh
Yes, it appears that it was loaded as expected: # grep -i crash /proc/iomem 3300-36ff : Crash kernel Thanks for the response. *Andrew Walsh*

Re: Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread emmanuel segura
Hello After you reboot and configure your kdump, before you do the test crash dump, check if your crash kernel was loaded corretly with grep -i crash /proc/iomem 2013/7/29 Andrew Walsh > Hi all, > > > > I’ve got an issue trying to configure kdump on my debian systems, and I > was hoping some

Difficulty configuring kdump

2013-07-29 Thread Andrew Walsh
Hi all, I’ve got an issue trying to configure kdump on my debian systems, and I was hoping someone could help shine some light on the issue for me that might help me get it working. I’ve done some extensive reading about how to configure it, but nothing has been fruitful in pointing me in the r