Re: Bug#699367: an issue with crash(8) perhaps?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:21:56PM -0500, David Magda wrote:
> On 2013-02-21 14:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >The squeeze kernel is unfortunately missing support for a lot of
> >current hardware (notably graphics but also some networking chips) so
> >many people are running later kernel versions. I would love to fix
> >some of these but I have my hands full and I can rarely test
> >backported drivers myself. So I would expect quite a lot of people
> >to be running Linux 3.2 from wheezy or squeeze-backports, or a custom
> >3.x kernel (which doesn't require a huge amount of technical
> >sophistication).
> >
> >I don't know how many people use 'crash'; you're in a better position
> >to answer that.
> >
> >I think that rather more than one or two users will be affected by
> >this, and if there is a simple fix then it is fair to expect that
> >you will save them the trouble.
>
> There's also the fact that until wheezy, no standard Debian kernel
> had automatic support for crash dumps either. Now that it's there,
> both in wheezy and squeeze-backports, there's a larger potential for
> its use.
So 'crash' is almost useless in squeeze now: it requires a custom
kernel older than 3.0.
> Previously one had to compile a custom kernel, now a simply
> 'apt-get' is needed.
>
> Even in wheezy, dumps don't Just Work(tm) out of the box: see 700418.
I know. Seems like several tools have different ideas where debug
information for vmlinux should be, and we should keep them happy
by adding symlinks. You can make this happen sooner if you send
a patch to that bug.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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