Bug 606596

Created attachment 425809 [details]
This fix worked for me, I don't know if it's the right way to do this but it worked.

Description of problem:

I followed the howto here (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kdump) on how to
activate kdump to diagnose kernel panic. When I rebooted I found out that kdump
service was unable to build it's initrd. here's the output.

No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAEkdump.img
No module raid5 found for kernel 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE, aborting.
Failed to run mkdumprd


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

# uname -r
2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE
# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
# rpm -qa |grep kexec
kexec-tools-2.0.0-35.fc13.i686


# lsmod |grep raid
raid1                  16661  1 
raid456                54229  1 
async_raid6_recov       4352  1 raid456
async_pq                3423  2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
raid6_pq               78424  2 async_raid6_recov,async_pq
async_xor               2641  3 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq
async_memcpy            1464  2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_tx                1981  5
raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq,async_xor,async_memcpy

# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] 
md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      262132 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid5 sda2[0] sdd1[4] sdc1[2] sdb2[1]
      731801088 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
      bitmap: 1/2 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_rp4-LV_root
                       15G  4.8G  8.6G  36% /
tmpfs                1007M  420K 1007M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/md1              248M   40M  196M  17% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_rp4-LV_home
                      671G  290G  347G  46% /home


How reproducible:
You need to have a Raid5 on your computer.
Follow the procedure to install and enable kdump
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kdump) reboot and try to start the kdump
service.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a Fedora 13 with raid5
2. yum install --enablerepo=fedora-debuginfo --enablerepo=updates-debuginfo
kexec-tools crash kernel-debuginfo
3. add crashkernel=128M to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf
4. Reboot
5. Try to start the kdump service, look at the output.


  
Actual results:

No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAEkdump.img
No module raid5 found for kernel 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE, aborting.
Failed to run mkdumprd



Expected results:
mkdumprd built the initrd and the "service" start as it's supposed to.

Additional info:

The problem is fixed I attached the file suggested by Mike T on Freenode. I've replaced my mkdumprd file with the attached one, and everything worked fine.

**If you try to reproduce this you will have problem with the initscript look here for the temporary workaround: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606584