Hi Kellen, thanks a lot for reporting and fixing that! I'd like to take the opportunity to discuss something related: no matter how many bugs we fix in makedumpfile / crash, more will come as kernel version bumps. Kernel has no stable ABI, so kernel developers can "break" compatibility with such tools, although makedumpfile maintainer (and crash's as well!) are really great in keep up with that and release proactive fixes even before the kernel change is merged.
But the problem is: in Ubuntu ecosystem, despite we have the HWE concept for kernel, these packages are not part of kernel HWE upgrades; hence, they get "stuck" and subject to bugs when kernel HWE is released. It happens all the time and will continue happening... We had discussions in the past (and I'm hereby CCing the interested parties: DannF, Dan Streetman, Heitor and Cascardo) about sync'ing makedumpfile and crash with kernel HWE upgrades. So, that might be a good opportunity for doing it. The idea was more or less like this: update makedump/crash on Release to make it sync'ed with Release +1 until the next LTS. So, in the end, we'll have LTS version == LTS +1 and then, we stop upgrading/syncing these packages. And the cycle restarts for LTS+1, up to the release of LTS+2. Hopefully this plan (or something similar) eventually is followed, I bet all users/customers would be glad to not face makedump/crash bugs due to kernel upgrades anymore! Cheers, and thanks for the attention =D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970672 Title: makedumpfile falls back to cp with "__vtop4_x86_64: Can't get a valid pmd_pte." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1970672/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
