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How to set up a vmcore analysis environment?


$ SOLUTION VERIFIED - Updated April 13 2022 at 12:09 PM - English

Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Issue
I have a vmcore I want to analyze
How can I look at a crash dump
What do I need for crash analysis

Resolution
Install the crash package

yum install crash

Locate the appropriate 'debuginfo' channel

yum repolist disabled | grep server-debug

Enable the 'debuginfo' channel

yum repolist --enablerepo=<repo with server-debug-rpms>

Install the kernel-debuginfo package


yum install kernel-debuginfo

Run 'crash' on the live system to test

# crash

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KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/...
DUMPFILE: /dev/crash
CPUS: 4
DATE: Wed Mar 26 17:44:26 2014
UPTIME: 01:34:34
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.08, 0.03, 0.05
TASKS: 366
NODENAME: localhost.localdomain
RELEASE: 3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64
VERSION: #1 SMP Fri Mar 7 17:02:28 UTC 2014
MACHINE: x86_64 (2893 Mhz)
MEMORY: 11.7 GB
PID: 3826
COMMAND: "crash"
TASK: ffff8800c4e44500 [THREAD_INFO: ffff8800ad0f6000]
CPU: 3
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE)

For vmcores of different kernel versions, the appropriate 'vmlinux' file from the kernel-
debuginfo package must be extracted. In this case, the crash invocation is as follows:
# crash /path/to/vmcore /path/to/vmlinux

For Example:

# crash /home/user/vmcore_022482 /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-


642.15.1.el6.x86_64/vmlinux

Please see Unable to open vmcore file using crash utility if you run into issues with mismatching
kernel versions between the vmcore and the analysis environment.

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