Description of problem: test kdump on the virtual machine,but find the vmcore is 537M Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kexec-tools-2.0.15-11.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.13.12-300.fc27.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. set crashkernel=256M in grub 2. kdumpctl start 3. echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 4. echo c >/proc/sysrq-trigger 5. reboot and check the vmcore size: ls -lth /var/crash/*/ Actual results: -rw-------. 1 root root 537M Nov 17 13:12 vmcore -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43K Nov 17 13:12 vmcore-dmesg.txt Expected results: vmcore should be less than 50M Additional info:
memory is 1824M disk size is 20G
Fixed in 2.0.15-12 and later, thus update kexec-tools this should not happen any more.
2.0.15-12 was not added in Fedora update repo yet, it was just merged in git. reopen and handle it
kexec-tools-2.0.15-12.fc27.1 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8e731156c5
kexec-tools-2.0.15-12.fc27.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8e731156c5
kexec-tools-2.0.15-12.fc27.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.