** Description changed: + SRU Justification: + + [Impact] + Users of ppc64el hardware need the ability to use crashdumps to do kernel debugging. + + [Test Case] + Taken from: + https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/CrashdumpRecipe + https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/kernel-crash-dump.html + + 1) apt-get install linux-crashdump + 2) reboot the machine + 3) sudo sed -i 's/USE_KDUMP=0/USE_KDUMP=1/g' /etc/default/kdump-tools + 4) kdump-config show # should return no errors + 5) echo 'c' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger + 6) This should crash the machine and we should kexec into another kernel to dump the core, then on the next reboot we should see a crash in /var/crash/* + + [Regression Potential] + Part of the fix involves adding a NEW package for ppc64el to allow linux-crashdump binary package to be built from linux-meta. + + -- + Problem Description : ==================== - I was trying to configure kdump and got below link + I was trying to configure kdump and got below link https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/kernel-crash-dump.html As per above link we need to install linux-crashdump pckg but it seems it is not included in repo as when I tried to install it then it failed with that unable to locate it . root@flyg4:~# apt-get install linux-crashdump Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-crashdump - root@flyg4:~# + root@flyg4:~# root@flyg4:~# uname -a Linux flyg4 3.13.0-30-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 4 21:29:58 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux root@flyg4:~#
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