| Summary: | Kdump is not operational in RHEL6.1 | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Steve Dickson <steved> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | qcai | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-10-12 02:42:05 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Created attachment 503931 [details]
cat /proc/iomem
This looks like the initscript issue. Can you "chkconfig kdump on" and try it again? (In reply to comment #3) > This looks like the initscript issue. Can you "chkconfig kdump on" and try it > again? This took care of the problem for me.... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 734987 *** |
Created attachment 503928 [details] dmesg messages Description of problem: kdump refuse to start in the latest RHEL6.1 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 kexec-tools-2.0.0-188.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: All the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Added crashkernel=128M@32M to the kernel line in grub.conf (Note: I as tried crashkernel=128M@64M and crashkernel=128M@0M as well as justcrashkernel=128M) 2. rebooted 3. service kdump start - fails with kdump: No crashkernel parameter specified for running kernel Additional info: cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size == 0 Note, the following like is in the attached dmesg Reserving 128MB of memory at 64MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 1996MB)