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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: crash (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: crash (Ubuntu Utopic)
   Importance: High
       Status: Triaged

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Title:
  The "crash" utility doesn't run in ARM64 based devices

Status in “crash” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “crash” source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in “crash” source package in Utopic:
  Triaged

Bug description:
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  HOW TO REPRODUCE
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  On an system that uses the ARM64 architecture, run the "crash"
  utility.

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  EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR
  ******************

  - The "crash" utility to work.

  **************
  REAL BEHAVIOUR
  **************

  - The "crash" utility doesn't work.

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  PROPOSED FIX
  ************

  - To clean merge into Ubuntu the <https://github.com/crash-
  utility/crash/commit/0f6d989aa091a97e979ea01fb15e05cc22673de7> commit,
  which updates the ARM64 implementation to support Linux 3.13 and
  later.

  - Since the change only affects the ARM64 architecture, there is no
  potential regression.

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  RELEVANT DETAILS
  ****************

  - The package's affected versions are the 7.0.3 based.

  - Dave Anderson at
  <http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html> said that
  some commands, most notably "bt", don't work yet.

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