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Re: [Xen-users] Tools to take a kernel crash dump.

To: Sreeharsha Totakura <sreeharsha.totakura@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Tools to take a kernel crash dump.
From: Tej <bewith.tej@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:23:27 +0530
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sreeharsha
Totakura<sreeharsha.totakura@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tej,
>
> The restart (crash) cannot be reproduced but its intermittent. It happens
> idiopathic, we cannot predict when it will next restart (crash). We have
> been observing this for a month. It ran perfectly last week and it
> restarted (crashed) today. Within minutes of restart it again took a
> restart. Now it appears to be running fine, the next restart can be in
> minutes, days or weeks.
>
> The Dom0 is running on PV Xen 3.1 kernel.
>
> I observed the system logs and there was nothing that hinted a cause for
> the system restart.
> If I should be looking at any other log, please let me know.

Collect the logs when system restart/panic using netconsole.
Can you try some newer xen version like 3.4..

HTH


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> Sree Harsha Totakura
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sreeharsha
> Totakura<sreeharsha.totakura@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> We have noticed that one of our servers xen Dom0 is restarting
>> idiopathically. Atleast, we are not able to analyze the cause. I have
>> checked the logs but couldn't find anything relating to it.
>
> what xen version, Can crash be reproduced????
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>> Are there any tools such as kdump (which doesn't seem to work on xenified
>> kernels) for catching the kernel crash snapshot.
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> netconsole, collects log.
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Sree Harsha Totakura
>> Member, Open Source Platform - TEG
>> Tata Consultancy Services
>> Ph:- +91-22-67782038
>> Mailto: sreeharsha.totakura@xxxxxxx
>> Website: http://www.tcs.com
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