vmcore info missing from mainline kernels...

[Daniel J Blueman]

On 9 August 2010 13:23, Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> When trying to debug a non-trivial kernel issue, having kdump
>> functionality can make all the difference.
>>
>> Alas, when reproducing the problem with mainline kernels (for sending
>> upstream), kdump is not available since the 'vmcoreinfo' file isn't
>> packaged.
>>
>> Is there chance this can be fixed perhaps, as it is generated for the
>> Ubuntu kernels?
>
> These are missing because of a lack of tools in the environment where
> the images are built.  I will see waht can be done to sort that out.

Thanks, Andy. That would really help and I imagine would be sorely
missed and thus get done eventually anyway.

Daniel
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Daniel J Blueman