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Bug 1965952 - [RHEL9] kdump initrd generation fails if /boot not writable
Summary: [RHEL9] kdump initrd generation fails if /boot not writable
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kexec-tools
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: ltao
QA Contact: Ruowen Qin
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Depends On: 1965989
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-31 08:32 UTC by ltao
Modified: 2022-04-15 02:22 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kexec-tools-2.0.22-8.el9
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Last Closed: 2021-12-07 21:50:14 UTC
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Description ltao 2021-05-31 08:32:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
This bug is cloned from bz1918499

original description of problem:
The /boot directory in RHEL CoreOS will soon be mounted read-only after version 4.7. Because of this, kdump will not be able to place the generated kdump initrd next to the kernel image in `KDUMP_BOOTDIR`. 
Possible solutions would be to make the location of the generated kdump initrd configurable, or to remount /boot writable whenever kdump needs to write to it. 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl start kdump.service

Actual results:
kdump does not have permission to write to the /boot directory so it cannot build the kdump initramfs.

Expected results:
Crash recovery kernel arming succeeds.

Additional info:
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/GRPA-3209
Comment 3 ltao 2021-06-23 03:40:41 UTC 
brew build:

https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=1642098
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