------- Comment From pavra...@in.ibm.com 2016-09-28 02:21 EDT------- Hi, Tested with "4.8.0-17-generic" kernel. After crash machine did not hang and 7.6G vmcore got captured. but dmesg.201609270619 is not generated.
Logs === root@ubuntu:/var/crash/201609270619# uname -a Linux ubuntu 4.8.0-17-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 25 06:35:40 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux root@ubuntu:/var/crash/201609270619# ls -lhrt total 2.0G -r-------- 1 root root 7.6G Sep 27 06:20 vmcore.201609270619 # makedumpfile -l -d 31 /var/crash/201609270619/vmcore.201609270619 dump1 The kernel version is not supported. The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. get_mem_map: Can't distinguish the memory type. makedumpfile Failed. With given makedump file ---------------------------- # ./makedumpfile -l -d 31 /var/crash/201609270619/vmcore.201609270619 dump1 The kernel version is not supported. The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. Copying data : [100.0 %] - The dumpfile is saved to dump1. makedumpfile Completed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626269 Title: Ubuntu 16.10: kdump is not working in 4.8 kernel. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1626269/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs