Sosreport hangs

Issue

• What is a sosreport?
• How to generate a sosreport?
• What to do if a sosreport hangs
• How to collect system log files, configuration details and system information from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to provide to Red Hat Technical Support for analysis.

• I am opening a service request with Red Hat Technical Support for technical assistance. What data I have to provide for initial analysis of my system?

• The support tech I was working with asked me to run a sysreport, what is a sysreport and how do I run it?

• How to run sosreport in rescue mode?

• How to generate sosreport for system that can not boot?
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux system does not boot.
• How to collect system information and logs for Technical Support to troubleshoot?

• System hung or had a kernel panic and now it hangs or gives me an error on reboot, how can I create a sosreport?

• Sosreport hangs.

• Sosreport will not run to completion on system.
• Sosreport command is not working.
• How to create a sosreport manually.
• Need to provide the information related to the system without sosreport.

• How do I collect data if sosreport is not installed?

• sosreport hangs during collection.

• sosreport does not finish as it goes to hung state.

• How to collect data for troubleshooting?

• Is there a way to force sosreport to use a different directory than /tmp?

• sosreport is filling all the space in /tmp, how to generate it in other directory

• When running sosreport, the command hangs and does not complete.

• sosreport hangs the system when multiple SIGINTs received

• The sosreport tool is hanging on a server running Veritas Cluster Suite.

• Tool sosreport doesn't work on one of my servers. It gets stuck after showing "plugin yum finished ..." It doesn´t write any more on /tmp/sos-XXXXX and the process doesn't stop.

• Why sosreport running as sudo user complaints "cluster node is not quorate" ?

• Does "sosreport" command have a non interactive mode? I want to use sosreport command on crontab.

• How can I customize the way abrt calls sosreport

• The sosreport command warns that the kmod-gfs2 package is installed:

GFS2 is being used via weak-updates, kmod-gfs2 should be uninstalled and system rebooted to allow for kernel provided gfs2 module to be used.

The kmod-gfs2 module is definitely not installed but sosreport continues warning that it is.

• How can I collect a sosreport from a RHEVH node without using the RHEVM logcollector tool?