Bug 1437029 - apply "--no-hostonly-default-device" in mkdumprd
Summary: apply "--no-hostonly-default-device" in mkdumprd
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Dave Young
QA Contact: Qiao Zhao
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Depends On: 1483838
Blocks: 1431974 1431982 1469549 1473055 1507354
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Reported: 2017-03-29 10:36 UTC by Xunlei Pang
Modified: 2018-04-11 01:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kexec-tools-2.0.15-7.el7
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 14:08:47 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:0807 None None None 2018-04-10 14:10:18 UTC

Description Xunlei Pang 2017-03-29 10:36:15 UTC 
Description of problem:
We currently pass "--hostonly-cmdline" to dracut when making kdump initramfs,
this is useful to collect more information on the host, but on the other hand it also results in more needless stuff added to kdump.

For example, more host devices(like lvm devices, devices mounted to /boot, /boot/efi, etc) will be generated as "wait_for_dev", then kdump must wait for all the devices ready.

Actually, Fedora doesn't have "--hostonly-cmdline", it works all the time as well. There is some difference regarding dracut between RHEL7 and Fedora, we need to investigate and see if can keep align with Fedora.

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Expected results:
Remove "--hostonly-cmdline" for RHEL7.5

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Comment 2 Xunlei Pang 2017-09-06 01:35:54 UTC 
After some discussion within team, we decided to keep "--hostonly-cmdline" and add the new "--no-hostonly-default-device" feature instead.
Comment 6 Dave Young 2017-11-01 08:25:39 UTC 
*** Bug 1467567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 14:08:47 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0807
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