Why does crash show "cannot find booted kernel -- please enter namelist argument" and fail to run?
Issue
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crashfails with the following error:crash: cannot find booted kernel -- please enter namelist argument Usage: crash [OPTION]... NAMELIST MEMORY-IMAGE[@ADDRESS] (dumpfile form) crash [OPTION]... [NAMELIST] (live system form) Enter "crash -h" for details.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- invoking
crashwithout any command arguments
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