linux-kernel - How does anyone diagnose bugs on AWS EC2?

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Message-ID: <CAAZKuFY0vEJ90y1khzm7aQjLN92es-Dxa5ziL==xiXodUnGXew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2015 15:34:31 -0700
From:	Daniel Farina <daniel@...oku.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: How does anyone diagnose bugs on AWS EC2?

Hello,

I've recently been suffering some problems with sudden crashes that I
believe to be in Linux after upgrading from Ubuntu Precise to Ubuntu
Trusty.

It so happens there are enough computers to get a statistical sense of
the increase in such crashes, and it is about tenfold the rate.

The problem is that no messages I can easily attain are emitted:
crashdump doesn't work on EC2 (which is Xen-based, and fact that
crashdump doesn't work is also documented elsewhere on the Internet as
an upstream issue), and the logs possess nothing except maybe some nul
bytes where I expect unflushed data to be.

While I know LKML is not particularly interested in bug reports such
an a kernel, I'm having trouble finding references on how one goes
about designing a good bug report given the constraints I have (in
particular, no kdump, no logs).  I also was not able to find
definitive references about how to gather data for such cases.

Can anyone dispense advice about the routine way to deal with such
bugs so I can assemble a a decent report given the constraints I have
in post-mortem crash data?

Thanks in advance.
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