Kernel Crash Dumps

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 03/03/2011 04:46 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> In reviewing the kernel debugging documentation I came across the
> instructions for saving a crash dump for a kernel panic[1].  I tried
> following them and I'm unable to generate a crash dump.  Additionally,
> that page hadn't been touched in quite some time.  I've also found a bug
> report[2] about another person having an issue getting crash dumps.
>
> So my question is - is there something wrong with the documentation?
> the crash dump process? or me?
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/CrashdumpRecipe
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/710733
>
> Thanks,
>

I was able to generate a crash dump on a desktop running Natty. 
However, I've been unable to get crash dump to work on a server running 
Lucid.  Still working on it.

Thanks,

Joe