Arch Linux

Description:

Crash fails to launch if guile is not installed:

crash: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Once guile is installed, if you attempt to load a vmcore with crash, then it will attempt to shell out to the strings program (provided by binutils) in order to determine the kernel version. Its failure prevents loading.

If both guile and binutils are installed alongside crash, then loading a vmcore works as expected. I believe both packages should be added to the depends array. While binutils could be considered "optional" (crash can be used for live debugging, and I don't think it would need to call strings then), it is in base-devel and isn't a huge burden to add as a dependency.


Additional info:
* crash-8.0.0-1-x86_64
* log file for the strings-related crash is attached

Steps to reproduce:

Easiest way is with Docker:

$ cat Dockerfile
FROM archlinux
RUN pacman --noconfirm -Syu crash
$ docker build . -t archcrash
$ docker run -v "$(pwd):/mnt" -w /mnt -it crashlatest crash $VMCORE $VMLINUX

# add in dependencies to the Dockerfile and retry