Re: crash binary for latest unreleased kernel

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Jan 28 2018 - 05:01:15 EST


On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 10:20 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 00:37 -0800, Joe Smith wrote:
> > I happen to look at the patches for the crash binary and came across
> > this log entry from Jan 19. I am also using 4.15-rc kernel. Not
> > knowing anything about crash it is hard to even attempt to fix it.
>
> It may not work all that well if box does something new/creative, but
> mundane manual crash, and live rummaging seem to work well enough.

And looking through my modified makedumpfile package, looks like I've
replaced everything I had ever done do it with backports from newer
versions, so you should be able to get kdump working with nothing more
than an update to makefumpfile, plus virgin upstream crash source.

-Mike