Bug#718845: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

[Philip Ashmore <contact@philipashmore.com>]

On 07/08/13 16:09, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 15:27 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote:
>> On 07/08/13 09:18, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 00:06 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> I've rebooted a few times since then - is there any kind of black box
>>>> file I can attach to provide more information?
>>>
>>> Not by default.
>>>
>>> Ben.
>> Is there a non-default way?
>> The boot partition and the swap partition are two candidates for storing
>> crash data that spring to mind.
> 
> You can use kdump to store a crash dump.
> 
> Also, if booting in UEFI mode, you can use efivars to store crash log
> messages.  This is currently disabled by default, but you can enable it
> by setting module parameter efivars.pstore_disable=N.
> 
> Ben.
> 
I'm running on non-UEFI hardware.

I installed kdump-tools.

How do I verify it works?
Do I need to install a kdump kernel? Debug kernel? Kdump+Debug kernel?

Philip