The crash utility fails with an assertion in 'ram_init_load'.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • The crash utility reports the following error when trying to read a vmcore file;
# crash -s ./vmlinux_58 ./virsh_dump_58
crash: qemu-load.c:267: ram_init_load: Assertion `version_id == 3' failed.
Aborted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8
  • crash-4.1.2-8.el5

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