From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: In all RHEL kernels to date, the panic_on_oops variable has been initialized to 1. In RHEL5, it defaults to 0. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter alt-sysrq-c in a kernel without a kdump kernel loaded, or a xen kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: console displays "Sysrq : Trigger a crashdump", but system does not crash. Expected Results: forced system crash Additional info:
in kernel-2.6.18-2732.el5
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Verified in kernel-2.6.18-2747.el5
In 1207.4 tree.