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