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Re: an issue with crash(8) perhaps?



On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 14:50 -0500, David Magda wrote:
> It appears that it may be an issue with the "crash" package. From the 
> release notes:
> 
> 5.1.6 - Fixed several typos in the updated crash.8 man page.
>           (bob.montgomery@hp.com)
> [...]
>        - Fix to support Linux 3.x version number change.  Without the patch,
>          the crash session fails with kernel version 3.0 and later, 
> displaying
>          the message "WARNING: kernel version inconsistency between vmlinux
>          and [live memory or dumpfile]", followed by the fatal error 
> message
>          "crash: incompatible arguments: vmlinux is not SMP -- [live 
> system or
>          dumpfile] is SMP".
>          (sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com, anderson@redhat.com)
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
> 
> The upstream bug report is at:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2011-June/thread.html#00000
> http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_patches/5.1.5-to-5.1.6.patch
> 
> If it is the "crash", can we either get:
> (a) the patch added to squeeze package, and/or
> (b) wheezy crash backported.

This should be fixed in squeeze so that partial upgrades work correctly.
Specific fixes of this nature are generally accepted by the stable
release managers.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.

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