[gentoo-dev] kdump

[gentoo-dev] kdump

[Justin]

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Hi all,

if someone is interested in implementing any infrastructure for a more
advanced usage of kdump for gentoo, please contact me.

justin




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Re: [gentoo-dev] kdump

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> if someone is interested in implementing any infrastructure for a more
> advanced usage of kdump for gentoo, please contact me.
>

I've blogged a bit about this and wrote the wiki page.  However, the
last time I actually tried to use kdump it wasn't working.  I don't
remember the details.  I know I could boot another kernel immediately,
but if I loaded a crash kernel it wouldn't actually boot on a panic.

It would be nice to have a more official solution for this on Gentoo.
I don't mind messing around with it.  I don't have a ton of time but
if you want to take the lead I can try to pitch in a bit.

Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdump

[Justin]

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On 27/03/13 12:40, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> if someone is interested in implementing any infrastructure for a more
>> advanced usage of kdump for gentoo, please contact me.
>>
> 
> I've blogged a bit about this and wrote the wiki page.  However, the
> last time I actually tried to use kdump it wasn't working.  I don't
> remember the details.  I know I could boot another kernel immediately,
> but if I loaded a crash kernel it wouldn't actually boot on a panic.
> 
> It would be nice to have a more official solution for this on Gentoo.
> I don't mind messing around with it.  I don't have a ton of time but
> if you want to take the lead I can try to pitch in a bit.
> 
> Rich
> 

Hi,

Actually I don't need kdump that's why I asked for some input.

During the version bump today, I saw that fedora is providing lots of
script and services for it. So I thought someone might be interested and
port that to gentoo.

kexec itself is working fine on gentoo.

Justin


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Re: [gentoo-dev] kdump

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
> During the version bump today, I saw that fedora is providing lots of
> script and services for it. So I thought someone might be interested and
> port that to gentoo.
>

I've given it thought, but I'm not quite at the point where I'd want
to take that on single-handed.  I don't mind contributing some,
however.  I guess see what kind of response you get and we'll figure
out what makes sense.

> kexec itself is working fine on gentoo.

That was my experience when I wrote the blog, but not the last time I
tried using it...  But, I haven't tested it in a few months.  That is,
kexec for a recovery kernel - it works fine if you want to do an
immediate reboot.

Rich