Quantum DXi6900

Chapter 2: Service Menus
Retrieving a Crash Dump File
70 Quantum DXi6900 G1 User’s Guide
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Jul 2 12:14
dumpstatus-2.6.19-2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2842162 Jul 2 12:05
Dxitsunami.log-2.6.19-2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1154974 Jul 2 12:05
System.map-2.6.19-2smp-2.6.19-
2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-02_11h43m48s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4272789 Jul 2 12:05
varlogmessages-2.6.19-2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s
-r-------- 1 root root 34230138656 Jul 2 12:04
vmcore-2.6.19-2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50367686 Jul 2 12:05
vmlinux-2.6.19-2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s
4 Retrieve the KDUMP trace from the message so it can be used with
the problem description:
# grep KDUMP kdump_CX0916BVA00005_Flames_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s/varlogmessages-2.6.19-
2smp_CX0916BVA00005_2009-07-02_11h43m48s
5 Compress the crash dump folder using the following command:
# tar jcvf kdump_CX0916BVA00005_Flames_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s.tar.bz2
kdump_CX0916BVA00005_Flames_2009-07-02_11h43m48s
After compressing the file using tar command, the following crash
dump file is available:
kdump_CX0916BVA00005_Flames_2009-07-
02_11h43m48s.tar.bz2
Note: The file size is approximately 2 GB to 30 GB compressed
(32
GB to 128 GB uncompressed), including log files for the
DXi6900 G1. This process can take 30–45 minutes to
complete.