Package: makedumpfile
Version: 1.5.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

There seems to be a serious issue with makedumpfile that causes it to fail to
dump the kernel log when collecting crash dump information. Instead, the
program continues to run indefinitely, continually appending the line "[
0.000000] " to the file as it seems to attempt to dump the log, which, if left
alone for any considerable length of time, can rapidly result in a very large,
entirely useless dmesg dump file.

I have been trying to collect crash dump information for a crash that's
triggered whenever Folding@Home's FahCore_a4 attempts to resume an in-progress
work unit, however, every crash dump I've collected has had this problem. The
main dump file seems to be dumped without a problem (though crash identifies it
as a partial dump, possibly due to the kernel log being dumped into a separate
file).

I hope you can look into this issue and hopefully it can be sorted out soon.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (650, 'experimental'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 
'saucy-updates'), (500, 'saucy-security'), (500, 'saucy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages makedumpfile depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0  1.0.6-5
ii  libc6       2.17-92
ii  libdw1      0.156-1
ii  libelf1     0.156-1
ii  perl        5.14.2-21
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages makedumpfile recommends:
ii  crash        7.0.1-3
ii  kexec-tools  1:2.0.3-4

makedumpfile suggests no packages.

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