Bug 220256 - kexec fails on ia64 box because it cannot allocate memory
Summary: kexec fails on ia64 box because it cannot allocate memory
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 220276
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 5.0
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Neil Horman
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-19 22:14 UTC by Akira Imamura
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-12-20 13:21:34 UTC
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Description Akira Imamura 2006-12-19 22:14:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
kexec fails because it cannot allocate memory. Consequently, kdump service
always fails to start up.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kexec-tools-1.101-151.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "service kdump start" or just run "kexec <options> <args>"
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Actual results:
kexec fails with the following error.

Cannot malloc 984921900322816 bytes: Cannot allocate memory

Expected results:
kexec succeeds, and kdump service starts up.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Neil Horman 2006-12-20 13:07:46 UTC 
Jarod or Akira, Can you provide me with access information to the SGI machine
(or any sufficiently large ia64 box), so that I can debug this please?

Thanks!
Comment 2 Neil Horman 2006-12-20 13:21:34 UTC 
never mind, jarod already got this fixed in -153.el5

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220276 ***
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