Comment 18 for bug 1714485

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-06-22 05:24 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #24)
>
> Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,
>
> Accepted makedumpfile into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
> be available at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.6.3-2~16.04.1 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-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix
> the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
> verification-failed-xenial. 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!
>
> Also available on artful-proposed.

Tried with proposed package, dump capture is successful.

root@ltc-garri3:~# uname -a
Linux ltc-garri3 4.4.0-128-generic #154-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 25 14:13:59 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
root@ltc-garri3:~# df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 211G 0 211G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 45G 20M 45G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 xfs 929G 1.6G 927G 1% /
tmpfs tmpfs 222G 0 222G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 222G 0 222G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 45G 0 45G 0% /run/user/1000

root@ltc-garri3:/var/crash# cd 201806220415
root@ltc-garri3:/var/crash/201806220415# ls
dmesg.201806220415 dump.201806220415
root@ltc-garri3:/var/crash/201806220415# tail dmesg.201806220415
[ 207.574328] Instruction dump:
[ 207.574359] 3842e720 7c0802a6 f8010010 f821ffe1 60000000 60000000 3d220019 39490664
[ 207.574612] 39200001 912a0000 7c0004ac 39400000 <992a0000> 38210020 e8010010 7c0803a6
[ 207.574870] ---[ end trace 11a9e3d935ec528f ]---
[ 207.734198]
[ 207.734265] Sending IPI to other CPUs
[ 207.735462] IPI complete
[ 207.736681] kexec: waiting for cpu 8 (physical 32) to enter OPAL
[ 207.737915] kexec: waiting for cpu 9 (physical 33) to enter OPAL
[ 207.739214] kexec: waiting for cpu 43 (physical 99) to enter OPAL

Thanks.
Pavithra