Kernel oops: where's the corefile?

[MBMarduk]

My 2.4.10 oopses on me repeatedly while doing 'dd if=/dev/scd0 of=file'.

Now, am I not supposed to get a corefile to go along with it?
Or am I really supposed to write all those addresses by hand every time?

Hyelp!
TIA, Mike

[PLBlaze]

There's no core's dumped intead you lookup the oopsie numbers in /usr/src/linux/vmlinux. Better yet try to run ksymoops that will give more info and debug...without you retyping all of it :D .Hope this helps.

[MBMarduk]

But '/usr/src/linux/vmlinux' is a binary!
I did a search for 'oops' but didn't get what I was looking for: data to send to the kernel developers.

What did you mean?

[PLBlaze]

You have to use nm utility to extract the EIP values out of vmlinux then find the one from the oops...try this cd /usr/src/linux && nm vmlinux | sort | less .While at it, read the README,REPORTING-BUGS files in top dir of kernel.Hope this helps again.

[MBMarduk]

Originally posted by Diffie:
<STRONG>While at it, read the README,REPORTING-BUGS </STRONG>

:o
My bad. I've read it before, HONESTLY! :)
Gotta read it again...it's been 6-8 months.
Never heard of 'nm' tho.