Re: How to take a crash dump

[Suparna Bhattacharya]

Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:30:20PM +0530, SATHISH.J wrote:
> > I have "lcrash" installed on my system. I have 2.4.8 kernel. I would like
> > to know how to make a linux system panic so that I can take a crash dump
> > and analyse using "lcrash". Is there any command to make the system panis
> > as we have on other unices(SVR4 and unixware)?
> 

Have you tried using the Alt+Sysrq+c key combination ? 

We had checked in some changes to enable non-disruptive dumps to be
taken this way as 
well (i.e. you can get a dump without having to reboot the system) but
that piece is going to be in lkcd 4.01. 

BTW, you can also trigger a crash dump conditionally using dprobes.

Regards
Suparna

> I wrote a toy module that does exactly what you want:
> 
>   http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/port/lart.c
> 
> I still have to get the module into Linus' tree so Christoph Hellwig
> will drive to .nl to buy me a beer :)
> 
> Erik
> 
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