Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144068
latest kernel breaks netdump
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:14:41 EST
Description of problem: The latest kernel breaks netdump, as it is is misisng netdump.ko. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 2. service netdump start Actual results: initializing netdump FATAL: Module netdump not found. initializing netconsole FATAL: Error inserting netconsole (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.724_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/net/netconsole.ko): Invalid argument
The netdump module also seems to be missing from 2.6.10-1.727_FC3
Still broken in 2.6.10-1.737_FC3
I remember reading in the kernel changelogs that it had been taken out in preperation of being replaced with a new kexec system... Hmm just found this: http://diary.codemonkey.org.uk/index.php?month=12&year=2004#20041216 and this http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00637.html
Surely this is a mistake to remove it from the FC3 kernel though
Given that they dropped 4g4g (and seeing how that affected some people severely), who knows if it was intentional or a mistake.
it was intentional, as it rejected once I rebased and various other patches got dropped. rediffing it and getting it back into fc2/fc3 is on my todo list, though there are higher priority things right now.
fixed in cvs, will be in the next build.