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• For more details on kdump specific to SUSE Linux, see http://

ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/kdump-training/kdump-

training.pdf .

• An in-depth description of kdump internals can be found at http://

lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/documentation/ols2oo5-kdump-

paper.pdf .

For more details on crash dump analysis and debugging tools, use the following re-

sources:

• In addition to the info page of GDB (info gdb), you might want to read the

printable guides at http://sourceware.org/gdb/documentation/ .

• A white paper with a comprehensive description of the crash utility us-

age can be found at http://people.redhat.com/ander

son/crash_whitepaper/.

• The crash utility also features a comprehensive online help. Just write help com-

mand to display the online help for command.

• If you have the necessary Perl skills, you can use Alicia to make the debugging

easier. This Perl-based front end to the crash utility can be found at http://

alicia.sourceforge.net/ .

• If you prefer Python instead, you may want to install Pykdump. This package helps

you control GDB through Python scripts and can be downloaded from http://

sf.net/projects/pykdump .

• A very comprehensive overview of the Linux kernel internals is given in Un-

derstanding the Linux Kernel by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati (ISBN

978-0-596-00565-8).