Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 (+ hotfixes): GPF related to skge on suspend

Andrew Morton (on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:06:02 -0700) wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:54:21 +1000
Keith Owens [off-list ref] wrote:

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Code: 44 8b 28 c7 45 d0 00 00 00 00 45 85 ed 0f 89 29 fb ff ff e9
Error (Oops_bfd_perror): /tmp/ksymoops.0lrVNY Invalid bfd target

box:/home/akpm> rpm -qi ksymoops 
Name        : ksymoops                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.4.11                            Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Sat Jan  8 05:43:45 2005
Install Date: Wed Jun 28 16:59:45 2006      Build Host: ocs3.ocs.com.au
Group       : Utilities/System              Source RPM: ksymoops-2.4.11-1.src.rpm

Back in 2000 there were a lot of version problems between ksymoops and
libbfd and libiberty, so I statically link against these libraries when
I build the rpm.  You have an i386 version of ksymoops, which was built
against an i386 only version of libbfd, it does not support target
elf64-x86-64.  Grab the ksymoops src.rpm and rebuild on x86_64, or use
a binary rpm from an x86_64 distribution.

But would such a binary be able to decode i386 oopses?

It depends on your versions of bfdutils and binutils.  ksymoops does
not decode the object itself, it uses bfd and objdump to do the work.
FWIW, the version of ksymoops in suselinux 10.0 for x86_64 will handle
both i386 and x86_64.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/ksymoops-2.4.11-1.src.rpm
fails to build, btw.  Had to do s/Copyright/License/ in the spec file.

Ah, the joys of changing RPM standards.