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Hello,<br>
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I am trying to run the kdump testsuite on a Debian 9 distribution, but every test fails with "vmcore NOT FOUND".<br>
>From what I understand, it is because <i>/proc/vmcore</i> is missing from my machine configuration.
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I have the "crashkernel=256M@128M" parameter inside /etc/default/grub, and also nmi_watchdog=1.</div>
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I also have inside the kernel configuration: <br>
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CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y<br>
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CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y<br>
CONFIG_KEXEC=y<br>
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y</div>
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and everything described in the documents as needed.</div>
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Also, for example, when trying to simulate with the SysRq it doesn't even finish as at some point it hangs and you have to close and restart manually the machine.</div>
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A snapshot is attached.</div>
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Can anyone please offer some support for this?</div>
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Nothing I found on google worked until now!<br>
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Best regards, <br>
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Emanuel-Vladut Magas</div>
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L4B Software, Iasi, Romania</div>
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E-mail: vladut.m@l4b-software.com<br>
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