vmcore-dmesg(8)

vmcore-dmesg8

Usage

vmcore-dmesg vmcore

Overview

vmcore-dmesg extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to standard out. vmcore-dmesg works against either /proc/vmcore in a crash dump capture context or a copy of /proc/vmcore that has been saved for later analysis. A single build of vmcore-dmesg should work against any linux vmcore written created on any architecture.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7–11
  2. 12–13
  3. Arch

Author

vmcore-dmesg was written by Eric Biederman.

From kexec-tools 2.0.32-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.