From 69d44e59e92a714525db710da76c7e012db8b392e17e7e0cea45a7455d939e54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: OBS User unknown Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:59:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/kexec-tools?expand=0&rev=14 --- README.SUSE | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- kexec-tools.changes | 5 +++++ kexec-tools.spec | 6 ++++-- 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.SUSE b/README.SUSE index c269d60..6860040 100644 --- a/README.SUSE +++ b/README.SUSE @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The recommended values by architecture for the "crashkernel" option are: i386: crashkernel=64M@16M x86_64: crashkernel=64M@16M -ia64: crashkernel=128M +ia64: crashkernel=512M (on small machines use 256M) PPC64: crashkernel=128M@32M After setting the boot loader option, activate the Kdump init script, @@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ applications and ensure that no users are logged on before performing this test. # sync +# echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger (remount file systems read-only to + avoid recovery after reboot) # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger After the system recovers, verify that a vmcore file was generated in @@ -299,8 +301,23 @@ Determines if kdump uses verbose output. This value is a bitmask: /etc/init.d/kdump +Machine-specific Notes +====================== + + - IA64 + o On some Hewlett Packard platforms you need 'machvec=dig' in + KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND. For example: HP rx3600. + + o On SGI SN2 machines, the kdump doesn't work when the VGA console + is active. To disable the VGA console execute following commands + in the EFI shell + + Shell> set NoVGA 1 + Shell> reset + + Dump Analysis -------------- +============= Dump analysis can be performed using GDB or the Crash utility. The Crash utility is included in the crash RPM package. You must install a diff --git a/kexec-tools.changes b/kexec-tools.changes index 060bae6..59342ef 100644 --- a/kexec-tools.changes +++ b/kexec-tools.changes @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Fri Mar 9 21:34:36 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de + +- added hint that VGA console doesn't work (#253173) + ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Feb 15 13:44:01 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de diff --git a/kexec-tools.spec b/kexec-tools.spec index d725fc3..894b491 100644 --- a/kexec-tools.spec +++ b/kexec-tools.spec @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Requires: %insserv_prereq %fillup_prereq Autoreqprov: on Summary: Tools for fast kernel loading Version: 1.101 -Release: 79 +Release: 82 Source: %{name}-%{package_version}.tar.bz2 Source1: kdump Source2: sysconfig.kdump @@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ true # ignore errors /var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.kdump %{_sbindir}/kdump-helper -%changelog -n kexec-tools +%changelog +* Fri Mar 09 2007 - bwalle@suse.de +- added hint that VGA console doesn't work (#253173) * Thu Feb 15 2007 - bwalle@suse.de - added setting to print the kdump command line to standard output - small improvement for the outut message while dumping: last