On 02/21/13 09:22, David Magda wrote: > >>If it is the "crash", can we either get: > >>(a) the patch added to squeeze package, and/or > >>(b) wheezy crash backported. > > Any news on whether (a) or (b) will be done? Or is there a (c) that > hasn't been considered perhaps? I haven't tried to push for a squeeze backport of crash debugger yet and honestly I really don't want to push for it unless there is a good reason. Unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible, I can't see how this could have an effect on more than one or two users. How many people are really running a 3.x kernel on top of a Squeeze userspace AND who also are worried about running the debugger on that specific live system AND who can't easily workaround it? One simple workaround would be to move to the dump to a system running a new version of crash that supports the 3.0 kernel. In wheezy I moved to the minimal rules file that required a newer version of debhelper so a direct rebuild of the package doesn't work. However, crash does not require any new dependencies, nor does it need to be installed to run so it is extremely trivial to build and run directly from the upstream source. Since ware are only talking about users who have explicitly moved to a kernel that is not part of the original distribution and who also want to run the crash debugger against it I would say this is a technically aware user who shouldn't be too put off having to do: # Grab the squeeze build dependencies for crash apt-get build-dep crash wget http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash-6.1.4.tar.gz -O - | tar xz cd crash-6.1.4 make ./crash Although, maybe I'm missing something and there is enough justification to do a quick backport. Thoughts? Troy
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