From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C27F139085 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29BBDE0DD3; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8320E0DCE; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2600:8802:607:6600:2e33:7aff:fef2:3005] (unknown [IPv6:2600:8802:607:6600:2e33:7aff:fef2:3005]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C980340F53; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] woodpecker.gentoo.org outage post-mortem & request for somebody to package kdump To: "Robin H. Johnson" , gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: Cc: gentoo-core@lists.gentoo.org From: Zac Medico Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:21:20 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b7de2dfa-b34e-4aba-a25b-c346d0f2cf3f X-Archives-Hash: f1b3a4423cdd12fdc64e314ee22f0ac6 On 02/03/2017 11:59 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > woodpecker was briefly unavailable again (2017/01/04 06:40-07:10 UTC), > and was freshly booted to recover, as the VM host threw a kernel panic > again (it's happened about once a month now, on 2 different boxes). > > I did have network console logging enabled on the VM host, but it didn't > capture anything except the very start of the crash. > > Can somebody with time please package the Redhat/Ubuntu kdump tools, so > that they can be used when the crashkernel boots (that side is already > done on infra systems as well). > > You probably also want to improve this page: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Dumps > It looks like debian has a well-maintained repository here, which includes makedumpfile, and the kdump-tools stuff in the "debian" subdirectory: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/makedumpfile.git/tree/ Apparently they distribute makedumpfile as a separate package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/kdump-tools https://packages.debian.org/sid/makedumpfile -- Thanks, Zac