crash fails with 'WARNING: could not find MAGIC_START!'

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While running crash utility to analyse vmcore it is failing with below error:
WARNING: could not find MAGIC_START!
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff82409658  type: "timekeeper xtime_sec"
crash: cannot determine base kernel version
crash: ./vmlinux and ./vmcore do not match!

Environment

  • crash utility

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