Bug 220256

Summary:	kexec fails on ia64 box because it cannot allocate memory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Akira Imamura <aimamura>
Component:	kexec-tools	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	jarod, kkomiyam, ktokunag, ntachino
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Description Akira Imamura 2006-12-19 22:14:16 UTC

Description of problem:
kexec fails because it cannot allocate memory. Consequently, kdump service
always fails to start up.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kexec-tools-1.101-151.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "service kdump start" or just run "kexec <options> <args>"
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Actual results:
kexec fails with the following error.

Cannot malloc 984921900322816 bytes: Cannot allocate memory

Expected results:
kexec succeeds, and kdump service starts up.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2006-12-20 13:07:46 UTC

Jarod or Akira, Can you provide me with access information to the SGI machine
(or any sufficiently large ia64 box), so that I can debug this please?

Thanks!

Comment 2 Neil Horman 2006-12-20 13:21:34 UTC

never mind, jarod already got this fixed in -153.el5

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220276 ***