Description of problem: Dec 22 20:28:30 fante systemd: Starting Crash recovery kernel arming... Dec 22 20:28:32 fante kdumpctl: No kdump initial ramdisk found. Dec 22 20:28:32 fante kdumpctl: Rebuilding /boot/initramfs-3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64kdump.img Dec 22 20:28:47 fante kdumpctl: dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/var/lib/random-seed' Dec 22 20:28:47 fante kdumpctl: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.zcIGxX -a /var/lib/random-seed Dec 22 20:28:47 fante kdumpctl: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd Dec 22 20:28:47 fante kdumpctl: Starting kdump: [FAILED] Dec 22 20:28:47 fante systemd: kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Dec 22 20:28:47 fante systemd: Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming. Dec 22 20:28:47 fante systemd: Unit kdump.service entered failed state. On Fedora 20 /var/lib/random-seed does not exist. It is '/var/lib/systemd/random-seed' Changing the location in the following files, fixed it for me: /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kdumpbase/kdump.sh: cat /var/lib/random-seed > /dev/urandom /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kdumpbase/module-setup.sh: dracut_install /var/lib/random-seed || exit $? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kexec-tools-2.0.4-14.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: 100%
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