Comment 2 for bug 1472364

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-08-31 06:27 EDT-------
I have installed the latest versions of ppc64-diag packages on Ubuntu 14.04.3 OS.
Then verifying if the issue is fixed with the latest version of the packages.

root@ltc-fire6:~# uname -a
Linux ltc-fire6 3.19.0-26-generic #28~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 12 14:10:52 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

root@ltc-fire6:~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.3 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

root@ltc-fire6:~# dpkg --list | grep ppc64-diag
ii ppc64-diag 2.6.9-0ubuntu1~14.04 ppc64el Platform error log analysis tool and rtas_errd daemon
root@ltc-fire6:~# ls -l /var/log/dump/
total 0

root@ltc-fire6:~# cd /var/log/
root@ltc-fire6:/var/log# ls -l
total 5728
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21587 Aug 19 00:15 alternatives.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 05:26 apt
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 28205 Aug 31 01:17 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26678 Aug 23 06:25 auth.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 539 Aug 31 01:15 boot.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 2688 Aug 31 01:16 btmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 2015 dist-upgrade
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 70194 Aug 31 01:15 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 70194 Aug 31 00:30 dmesg.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14308 Aug 25 13:48 dmesg.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14262 Aug 25 13:17 dmesg.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14294 Aug 25 12:17 dmesg.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14254 Aug 24 03:35 dmesg.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 644462 Aug 31 01:21 dpkg.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 15:11 dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32032 Aug 18 07:33 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 643 Aug 18 07:32 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 05:25 fsck
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 07:22 installer
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 899068 Aug 31 01:15 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1689103 Aug 21 08:24 kern.log.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 landscape root 4096 Aug 18 07:25 landscape
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Aug 31 01:17 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 15:11 ppc64-diag
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 278461 Aug 31 01:20 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 543902 Aug 26 06:38 syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 12034 Aug 25 06:29 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 90415 Aug 24 06:37 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 282976 Aug 23 06:40 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 878348 Aug 31 01:15 udev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 07:36 unattended-upgrades
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 01:21 upstart
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 140160 Aug 31 01:17 wtmp
root@ltc-fire6:/var/log# cd dump/
root@ltc-fire6:/var/log/dump# ls

The /var/log/dump folder is created by default with the latest fixes.