Hello, Version 1.6.1 of makedumpfile was announced upstream a bit more than one week ago (27.12.16). As of this morning, it was not even packaged for Debian.
I happen to be the debian maintainer for makedumpfile. I uploaded 1.6.1-1 minutes ago to Debian unstable. I will sync to Zesty in the following days. So a version for the 4.8 kernel will be available in Zesty shortly. Regarding 16.04, the Stable Release Update procedure forbids uploads of major releases as SRU. So makedumpfile 1.6.1 will not be released to Xenial and Yakkety. But 4.8 kernel specific issues have already been addressed in LP: #1626269. Once makedumpfile 1.6.1 becomes available in Zesty, I will investigate the possibility of disabling the "kernel not supported" message for the 1.6.0 versions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to makedumpfile in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654068 Title: Ubuntu 16.04.02: Error message "kernel version is not supported" is logged during fadump, dump capture will be successful. Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in makedumpfile source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in makedumpfile source package in Yakkety: Confirmed Bug description: == Comment: #0 - PAVITHRA R. PRAKASH - 2016-12-25 23:00:37 == ---Problem Description--- Ubuntu 16.04.02: Error message "kernel version is not supported" is logged during fadump, dump capture will be successful. ---Steps to Reproduce--- 1. Configure fadump. 2. Trigger crash. Logs ===== root@alp9:/home/ubuntu# service kdump status ? kdump.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) root@alp9:/home/ubuntu# kdump-config show DUMP_MODE: fadump USE_KDUMP: 1 KDUMP_SYSCTL: kernel.panic_on_oops=1 KDUMP_COREDIR: /var/crash /var/lib/kdump/vmlinuz: symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-4.8.0-32-generic kdump initrd: /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img: symbolic link to /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img-4.8.0-32-generic current state: ready to fadump [-1;-1f[ 3.187917] kdump-tools[1049]: Starting kdump-tools: * running makedumpfile -c -d 31 /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201612220208/dump-incomplete Copying data : [100.0 %] | [ 5.711820] kdump-tools[1049]: The kernel version is not supported. [ 5.712201] kdump-tools[1049]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. [ 5.712515] kdump-tools[1049]: The dumpfile is saved to /var/crash/201612220208/dump-incomplete. [ 5.712849] kdump-tools[1049]: makedumpfile Completed. [ 5.720901] kdump-tools[1049]: * kdump-tools: saved vmcore in /var/crash/201612220208 [ 5.916826] kdump-tools[1049]: * running makedumpfile --dump-dmesg /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201612220208/dmesg.201612220208 [ 5.941113] kdump-tools[1049]: The kernel version is not supported. [ 5.941612] kdump-tools[1049]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. [ 5.941969] kdump-tools[1049]: The dmesg log is saved to /var/crash/201612220208/dmesg.201612220208. [ 5.942340] kdump-tools[1049]: makedumpfile Completed. [ 5.942648] kdump-tools[1049]: * kdump-tools: saved dmesg content in /var/crash/201612220208 [ 5.994508] kdump-tools[1049]: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 02:08:35 -0500 [ 6.018241] kdump-tools[1049]: Rebooting. [ 6.025884] reboot: Restarting system == Comment: #3 - Hari Krishna Bathini - 2017-01-04 07:14:19 == Canonical, Please pick the latest version of makedumpfile (v1.6.1) which officially supports 4.8 kernels. Thanks Hari To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1654068/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
