Bug 232694

Summary: kexec cannot deteremine file type with 2.6.20-1.2300.fc5kdump kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Holmstadt <rhbz001>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description John Holmstadt 2007-03-16 17:40:42 UTC
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Description of problem:
The 2.6.20-1.2300.fc5 version of kernel-kdump will not load. Kexec complains that it "Cannot determine the file type of /boot/vmlinux-2.6.20-1.2300.fc5kdump". Works fine with kernel-kdump-2.6.19-1.2288.fc5.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2300.fc5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
[root@server ~]# rpm -qa kernel-kdump
kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2300.fc5
kernel-kdump-2.6.19-1.2288.fc5
[root@server ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/kdump
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/kdump start
Cannot determine the file type of /boot/vmlinux-2.6.20-1.2300.fc5kdump

If you specify KDUMP_KERNELVER="2.6.19-1.2288.fc5kdump" in "/etc/sysconfig/kdump", it loads fine...

[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/kdump start
[root@server ~]#


Actual Results:


Expected Results:
Kexec should load the kernel without complaint.

Additional info:

Comment 1 John Holmstadt 2007-03-28 16:57:12 UTC
Still a problem with 2307...

[root@server ~]# rpm -qa kernel-kdump
kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2300.fc5
kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2307.fc5
kernel-kdump-2.6.19-1.2288.fc5
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/kdump start
Cannot determine the file type of /boot/vmlinux-2.6.20-1.2307.fc5kdump
[root@server ~]#

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-03 04:56:18 UTC
User vgoyal's account has been closed

Comment 3 Jeroen Janssen 2007-05-09 08:48:24 UTC
I think this bug is related to #238768 (which is for fc6).

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:33:38 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:21:49 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

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