Bug 210174 - kdump fails when the dump parition is specified as a label in /etc/kdump.conf
Summary: kdump fails when the dump parition is specified as a label in /etc/kdump.conf
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Neil Horman
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-10 16:08 UTC by Nobuhiro Tachino
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.0.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-13 17:13:51 UTC
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mkdumprd.diff (1015 bytes, patch)
2006-10-10 16:08 UTC, Nobuhiro Tachino
no flags Details | Diff

Description Nobuhiro Tachino 2006-10-10 16:08:45 UTC
Description of problem:

/etc/kdump.conf does not allow to specify the dump partition as a label.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kexec-tools-1.101-88.1

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add 'ext3 LABEL=/1' to /etc/kdump.conf
2. execute kdump
3.
  
Actual results:

kdump fails to save vmcore to the dump partition.

Expected results:

kdump succeeds to save vmcore to the dump partition which is specified in
/etc/kdump.conf.

Additional info:

Appended patch fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Nobuhiro Tachino 2006-10-10 16:08:46 UTC
Created attachment 138155 [details]
mkdumprd.diff

Comment 2 Neil Horman 2006-10-10 17:20:46 UTC
I'm going to add this feature, but for the record, the documentation in
kdump.conf clearly indicates that that a partition must be specified with the
local filesystem options.  Opening requests for new features as bugs isn't going
to be acceptable after the beta 2 release.

Comment 3 Nobuhiro Tachino 2006-10-10 18:02:29 UTC
Would you please elaborate on the local filesystem options? I think the
following is the documentation for saving a dump to a local filesystem, but it
seems not to say that the partition must be specified as the block device file only.

# <fs type> <partition>  - will mount -t <fs type> <partition> /mnt and copy
/proc/vmcore to 
#			/mnt/var/crash/%DATE/


Comment 4 Neil Horman 2006-10-10 18:44:25 UTC
added in -90.el5

Comment 5 Jay Turner 2007-02-13 17:13:51 UTC
kexec-tools-1.101-164.el5 included in 20070208.0.


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