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Bug 1283128

Summary: kdump interferes with parted
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Stef Walter <stefw>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: kdump team <kdump-team-bugs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Kernel General QE <kernel-general-qe>
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Version: 7.2CC: mhuang, mvollmer
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Description Stef Walter 2015-11-18 10:44:04 UTC 
Description of problem:

Right after boot, kdump.service is busy for some time and during
that time parted fails when creating a new partition.

Workaround: systemctl disable kdump.service
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2015-11-18 10:44:40 UTC 
Marius, could you provide further information here, including:

 * Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 * How reproducible:
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Comment 3 Minfei Huang 2015-11-18 10:52:08 UTC 
(In reply to Stef Walter from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Right after boot, kdump.service is busy for some time and during
> that time parted fails when creating a new partition.

Does parted device is used by kdump service? Do you use the default kdump config (locates in /etc/kdump.conf) or modify the config? If so, could you mind pasting the config.

Thanks
Minfei

> 
> Workaround: systemctl disable kdump.service
Comment 4 Marius Vollmer 2015-11-18 12:40:30 UTC 
This should be covered by bug 1283112.

kdump only interferes with parted in so far as it puts load on the system, which causes the race between parted and udevd to have a different winner.  I have reproduced bug 1283112 with a simple "while true; do true; done" loop to produce the load.

(I should have updated the comment in cockpit-rhel-7.setup after I figured this out.  Sorry about that.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1283112 ***