Is it possible to extract useful information from the incomplete vmcore file?

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Issue

  • We have 'vmcore-incomplete' file. Can we extract useful information from the incomplete file?
  • How to get the "log" messages from an incomplete or partial vmcore file?
  • How to extract the log messages from vmcore-incomplete?
  • crash command fails with following error

    $ crash vmcore vmlinux
    ...
    WARNING: vmcore: may be truncated or incomplete
             PT_LOAD p_offset: 3092557976
                     p_filesz: 65498251264
               bytes required: 68590809240
                dumpfile size: 67212820480
    ..
    crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffff81103fc5aec0  type: "cpu_pda entry"
    please wait... (gathering kmem slab cache data)
    crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffff811016544300  type: "kmem_cache buffer"
    
    crash: unable to initialize kmem slab cache subsystem
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • crash package

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