Hi all,

I recently had an issue where, running kernel 2.6.32-358.11.1, the box would be up for about five minutes, then would crash and reboot. kdump saved the vmcore files, so I was hoping to run crash against them to see why this was occurring. I copied the vmcores to another machine, installed the kernel-debuginfo package, and gave it a try, but had no success:

$ crash /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64/vmlinux vmcore

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WARNING: kernels compiled by different gcc versions: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64/vmlinux: 4.4.6 vmcore kernel: 4.4.7

WARNING: kernel version inconsistency between vmlinux and dumpfile

crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c1bbc0 type: "current_task (per_cpu)" crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff81c232a4 type: "tss_struct ist array" $

And instead of the crash> prompt, I was back to the bash prompt. Does anyone know what I could do to figure out why that would be? Do I need to run crash on the original server (the crash docs seem to imply that's not necessary)? Anything else I could look for that might be useful? As far as I can tell the kernels match:

$ strings vmcore |grep OSRELEASE OSRELEASE=2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64

--keith