Bug 215268 - kdump service will not start
Summary: kdump service will not start
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vivek Goyal
QA Contact: Linda Wang
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-13 05:20 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:48:03 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2006-11-13 05:20:40 UTC
Description of problem:
kdump service will not start with kernel versions above 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 > 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system with kernel version > 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp 
2. add "crashkernel=128M@16M" to kernel command line
3. /sbin/service kdump start
  
Actual results:
Base address: 125e880 is not page aligned

Expected results:
Kdump starts.

Additional info:
I've tried different sizes for the crashkernel option without success.

Comment 1 Vivek Goyal 2006-11-13 14:07:24 UTC
Looks like this is a problem that all the segments in vmlinux are not on page
aligned boundary. Most likely it should be fixed by my patch which is in Andi's
tree and in -mm.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/23/289



Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2006-11-27 02:47:34 UTC
According to the FC5 kernel changelog, this was fixed.

* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej>
- Another day, another round of lockdep fixes.
- Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863)

However, bug 206863 was opened against FC6, and the current FC5
kernel (kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.i686) still has the bug.


Comment 3 Need Real Name 2006-11-27 04:18:35 UTC
Sorry, I should have mentioned the latest kernel I had tried this on instead of
relying on the date of my post (Nov 13) to be an indication of which versions of
the kernel I was talking about.

2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp has this bug.

[root@server1 ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp
[root@server1 ~]# /sbin/service kdump start
Base address: 125e880 is not page aligned


Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-03 04:52:02 UTC
User vgoyal's account has been closed

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:38:20 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:48:01 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

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