does not create compressed dump on 5.0 or later kernels

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

[Impact]
On ppc64el, makedumpfile won't create compressed dumps, causing them to be very large. This affects any kernel later than 4.19 actually.

[Test case]
Crash a system with kdump-tools installed and enabled, by using the following sequence. Verify the created dumps are compressed by using file. This is the same test as the autopkgtest for makedumpfile.

echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger

[Regression potential]
This is a small fix and should only impact ppc64el. Older kernels should still work, and should be tested.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

This affects bionic as we ship linux-hwe 5.0 kernels there.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

Some details about those debdiffs: they were prepared on top of a version done by Connor Kuehl that could have landed in -proposed between my uploading of the diff and the package upload/sponsorship.

That explains the extra changelog stanza and the versioning. It also explains the change in the original patches: I didn't revert the changes back, they were on Connor's version. I plan on keeping those as part of a workflow that allows multiple people to work on the package, as that seems to be happening more often these days, even though it hasn't landed in -proposed. They are all nitpicks and have no impact on users.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Hello Thadeu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted makedumpfile into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Hello Thadeu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted makedumpfile into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted makedumpfile (1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.1) for disco have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.1 (s390x, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/disco/update_excuses.html#makedumpfile

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The version of makedumpfile in the proposed pocket of Bionic that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because one or more bugs that were to be fixed by the upload have failed verification and been in this state for more than 10 days.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Hello Thadeu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted makedumpfile into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Hello Thadeu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted makedumpfile into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted makedumpfile (1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3) for bionic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3 (ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/bionic/update_excuses.html#makedumpfile

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted makedumpfile (1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3) for disco have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

makedumpfile/1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3 (s390x, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/disco/update_excuses.html#makedumpfile

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Guilherme G. Piccoli (gpiccoli)]

I was able to verify both releases.

*** Disco test, with kernel 5.0.0-32-generic ***
Running kdump-tools/makedumpfile from -updates pocket :

$ file vmcore.201911051825
vmcore.201911051825: ELF 64-bit LSB core file, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style

Running the -proposed packages for kdump-tools and makedumpfile, version 1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3 :

$ file dump.201911051840
dump.201911051840: Kdump compressed dump v6, system Linux, node gpiccoli-ppc64, release 5.0.0-32-generic,
version #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 2 02:06:32 UTC 2019, machine ppc64le, domain (none)

*** Bionic test, with kernel 5.0.0-32-generic ***
Running kdump-tools/makedumpfile from -updates pocket :

$ file vmcore.201911051957
vmcore.201911051957: ELF 64-bit LSB core file 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style

Also, saw the following message in console while makedumpfile was trying to
collect the compressed dump: "get_machdep_info_ppc64: Can't detect max_physmem_bits."

Running the -proposed packages for kdump-tools and makedumpfile, version 1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3 :

$ file dump.201911052003
dump.201911052003: Kdump compressed dump v6, system Linux, node bionic-ppc, release 5.0.0-32-generic,
version #34~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 10 10:35:58 UTC 2019, machine ppc64le, domain (none)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package makedumpfile - 1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3

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makedumpfile (1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1.3) disco; urgency=medium

  [ Guilherme G. Piccoli ]
  * Add kdump retry/delay mechanism when dumping over network (LP: #1681909)

  [ Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ]
  * Use maxcpus instead of nr_cpus on ppc64el. (LP: #1828597)
  * ppc64: increase MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 2PB (LP: #1841288)

  [ Connor Kuehl ]
  * Let the kernel decide the crashkernel offset for ppc64el (LP: #1741860)

 -- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:33:57 -0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for makedumpfile has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package makedumpfile - 1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3

---------------
makedumpfile (1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.04.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Guilherme G. Piccoli ]
  * Add kdump retry/delay mechanism when dumping over network (LP: #1681909)

  [ Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ]
  * Use maxcpus instead of nr_cpus on ppc64el. (LP: #1828597)
  * ppc64: increase MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 2PB (LP: #1841288)

  [ Connor Kuehl ]
  * Let the kernel decide the crashkernel offset for ppc64el (LP: #1741860)

 -- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:38:08 -0300