Bug 175192

Summary: [RHEL4 U3 REGRESSION] Whole device cannot be configured for diskdump.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Akira Imamura <aimamura>
Component: kernelAssignee: Akira Imamura <aimamura>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.3CC: anderson, jbaron
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Description Akira Imamura 2005-12-07 16:05:07 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Whole device (i.e. a disk device that is not partitioned) cannot be registered as a diskdump-dedicated device.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-24

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/diskdump to register whole device (e.g. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb) as a dump device.
2. Run "service diskdump restart"
3. Run "service diskdump status"


Actual Results:  A message "diskdump not enabled" is shown.
diskdump service is not ready to dump memory.

Expected Results:  A message "diskdump enabled" is shown.
diskdump service is ready to dump memory.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Linda Wang 2005-12-10 16:13:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175207 ***