- Issued:
- 2007-11-07
- Updated:
- 2007-11-07
RHBA-2007:0553 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
crash bug fix update and enhancement
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated crash packages that address several bugs and add enhancements are
now available.
Description
The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core
dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump facilities.
These updated packages fix the following bugs:
- fix for the "dev -p" command for ppc64 machines with virtual devices,
and for kernels that do not have the "pci_device" symbol.
- the error "crash: cannot resolve init_task_union" due to
"__per_cpu_start" and "__per_cpu_end" symbols changing from type "A" to
type "D" has been resolved.
- earlier versions of crash caused a segmentation fault when reading a xen
core dump from a 6 GB guest. This is resolved with this update.
- for x86 paravirtualized xendumps, if the active guest task at crash-time
was assigned a page directory page (cr3) greater than 4 GB, a crash session
initialization failure indicating "crash: cannot read/find cr3 page" would
occur. The snapshot value in the dump file header in the updated crash
packages allows page directory pages greater than 4 GB.
- crash reported the namelist and dumpfile "do not match!" when viewing a
core dump from a fully-virtualized xen guest running on AMD64. There was no
support for determining the physical base address of xen dump files so
crash, incorrectly, defaulted to a physical base address of zero. These
updated crash packages add support for determining the physical base
address of relocatable AMD64 kernels when run as a fully-virtualized xen
guests.
- earlier versions of the "bt" command caused a segmentation violation when
run against x86 xen-syms-xxx namelist files captured with kdump. With this
update the issue no longer occurs.
This update also adds the following enhancements:
- more reliable "bt" command backtraces for AMD64.
- a crash-devel package for extension modules has been added. It installs
defs.h in /usr/include/crash.
Users of the crash packages should apply this update, which resolves these
issues and adds these enhancements.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 233151 - crash fails to read RHEL-5 FV core dump files collected from xm dump-core
- BZ - 241045 - need crash-devel package for building extensions
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
x86_64 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb1950d611322b3bd747d30a7acf2edb50423d6003cc78a9b6bb21a7f5a6b408 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 53e47d09aa17549b2dcba883b1c68995c784a3a75d4ef34c8503fa7daea4e32b |
ia64 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 71b7270dc93585e17659f55ce27afaeb1d93f55f084c1eff14a7db1274bfed2d |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 8dc1efa4b3534d53b0fb47a8a675370f13647a021336d16a2161ca005d76b3fa |
i386 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 72f61e38fa89231ac184e01b6c1a6ae632de4a7929d39fe2add1ef102bfa0b47 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
x86_64 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb1950d611322b3bd747d30a7acf2edb50423d6003cc78a9b6bb21a7f5a6b408 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 53e47d09aa17549b2dcba883b1c68995c784a3a75d4ef34c8503fa7daea4e32b |
i386 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 72f61e38fa89231ac184e01b6c1a6ae632de4a7929d39fe2add1ef102bfa0b47 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
x86_64 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb1950d611322b3bd747d30a7acf2edb50423d6003cc78a9b6bb21a7f5a6b408 |
i386 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 72f61e38fa89231ac184e01b6c1a6ae632de4a7929d39fe2add1ef102bfa0b47 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
s390x | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 3cd646cf8c4dcd106662e819d1669d96024e8da7b9553dd75e2d4d1eabd1233c |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.s390.rpm | SHA-256: e626fece54b8788bca7f139694a3491c1c171ffb8d52784552228635ff68e19d |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: f46ac03c335aff83b7ef5759e8bf1b729cc7d702823c9f6f5b8c6c59182318ed |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
ppc | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 270b59d0600c91a0184e3bd4721f4f317a4b98f9e7b768612e055746eff0aef9 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: dc6479482e85dd320adfc0a3e3c924e6f2cda6169d03145414af5fb7be1c0d01 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
crash-4.0-4.6.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 75528be1c36d36d38551cffe9fc79e7d24186f79adb9ef82e63f38fd4694e853 |
x86_64 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb1950d611322b3bd747d30a7acf2edb50423d6003cc78a9b6bb21a7f5a6b408 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 53e47d09aa17549b2dcba883b1c68995c784a3a75d4ef34c8503fa7daea4e32b |
i386 | |
crash-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 72f61e38fa89231ac184e01b6c1a6ae632de4a7929d39fe2add1ef102bfa0b47 |
crash-devel-4.0-4.6.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: bd28b0fdc2bc7fd95fef675dfdd247053e3ef788f19a2ad3a6a08332ce67413b |
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