Bug 2069200

Summary:	[RHEL 9.1] makedumpfile -D --dump-dmesg runs in a loop
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Philipp Rudo <prudo>
Component:	kexec-tools	Assignee:	Philipp Rudo <prudo>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jie Li <jieli>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	9.0	CC:	aubaker, dwysocha, jieli, lichliu, ltao, prudo, ruyang, xiawu, yiyan
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	9.1
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kexec-tools-2.0.23-10.el9	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of:	2049284	Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-11-15 11:15:43 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	2049284
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Description Philipp Rudo 2022-03-28 13:09:24 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2049284 +++

Description of problem:

  Running this command:
    "makedumpfile -D --dump-dmesg vmcore vmcore-dmesg.txt" 

  will run indefinetely causing the vmcore-dmesg.txt to continuously to grow.

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

  $ rpm -q kexec-tools
  kexec-tools-2.0.20-46.el8_4.2.x86_64

  $ uname -r
  4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64

How reproducible:

  With this core- every time.


Steps to Reproduce:

  Added in private comment to the BZ

Actual results:

  Command never completes.

Expected results:

  Expect command to complete or error out.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Philipp Rudo 2022-03-30 13:25:27 UTC

MR: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/kexec-tools/-/merge_requests/75

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:15:43 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8301