crash on F20 beta says log_buf data structure has changed

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Tue Nov 19 21:44:06 UTC 2013


Hi Dave,

I captured a crash of F20 beta system and opened vmcore. crash gives me
warning that log_buf has changed and "log" command does not output
anything.

I thought you fixed it. Is it just a problem of pushing crash update
to F20?

Thanks
Vivek

# crash /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.11.8-300.fc20.x86_64/vmlinux vmcore

crash 7.0.1-2.fc20
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      KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.11.8-300.fc20.x86_64/vmlinux
    DUMPFILE: vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
        CPUS: 4
        DATE: Tue Nov 19 16:33:43 2013
      UPTIME: 00:03:24
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.18, 0.37, 0.18
       TASKS: 172
    NODENAME: <Edited>
     RELEASE: 3.11.8-300.fc20.x86_64
     VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Nov 13 16:34:27 UTC 2013
     MACHINE: x86_64  (2333 Mhz)
      MEMORY: 4 GB
       PANIC: 
WARNING: log buf data structure(s) have changed
""
         PID: 10584
     COMMAND: "bash"
        TASK: ffff8801371d96e0  [THREAD_INFO: ffff880138dd8000]
         CPU: 3
       STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

crash> log

log: WARNING: log buf data structure(s) have changed


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