crash
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Jump into a vmcore analysis – Step 2
As I had mentioned in the previous article, you can launch crash analysis by running the below command $ crash vmcore vmlinux The order of the file doesn’t matter as far as the file exist there. But, there’s a time that crash command fails as a vmcore is highly incomplete. In that case, you can… Continue reading
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Jump into a vmcore analysis – Step 1
If you have a vmcore needs to be analysed, you should have to download related kernel-debuginfo package unless your kernel does have all the debug information in the live kernel. You might easily check the kernel version of the vmcore by run ‘uname -r’, but safest way would be checking vmcore itself. You can use… Continue reading
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Some useful books for crash analysis
When you have to analysis system’s problem, crash can be very useful tool. Unfortunately you need to know how to trace back the core dump and also need to have some level of knowledges relating to the assembly. Following are some useful books that you can get basic concepts about it: – System V Application… Continue reading
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