Bug 211050

Summary:	panic_on_oops is not set to 1
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Dave Anderson <anderson>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Anderson <anderson>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	dzickus, jgiles
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Description Dave Anderson 2006-10-16 22:41:49 UTC

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Description of problem:

In all RHEL kernels to date, the panic_on_oops variable
has been initialized to 1.  In RHEL5, it defaults to 0.

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


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter alt-sysrq-c in a kernel without a kdump kernel loaded, or a xen kernel
2.
3.

Actual Results:
console displays "Sysrq : Trigger a crashdump",
but system does not crash.


Expected Results:
forced system crash

Additional info:

Comment 1 Don Zickus 2006-10-23 21:07:00 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-2732.el5

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2006-11-13 14:44:30 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Joshua Giles 2006-11-21 20:49:08 UTC

Verified in kernel-2.6.18-2747.el5

Comment 4 Joshua Giles 2006-12-18 20:52:38 UTC

In 1207.4 tree.