Description of problem: I try to load kdump but got the message for /var/log/messages: Aug 7 12:34:34 localhost kdump: Overlapping memory segments at 0x145e000 sort_segments failed Aug 7 12:34:34 localhost kdump: kexec: failed to load kdump kernel Aug 7 12:34:34 localhost kdump: failed to start up Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel version: 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kexec-tools-1.101-56.fc6 kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Additional info: /etc/grub.conf # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img ######################################################################### ######################################################################### /etc/sysconfig/kdump # Kernel Version string for the -kdump kernel, such as 2.6.13-1544.FC5kdump # If no version is specified, then the init script will try to find a # kdump kernel with the same version number as the running kernel. KDUMP_KERNELVER="" # The kdump commandline is the command line that needs to be passed off to # the kdump kernel. This will likely match the contents of the grub kernel # line. For example: # KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="ro root=LABEL=/" # If a command line is not specified, the default will be taken from # /proc/cmdline KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="3 irqpoll maxcpus=1" # Any additional kexec arguments required. In most situations, this should # be left empty # # Example: # KEXEC_ARGS="--elf32-core-headers" KEXEC_ARGS=" --args-linux" #Where to find the boot image KDUMP_BOOTDIR="/boot" #What is the image type used for kdump KDUMP_IMG="vmlinux" #What is the images extension. Relocatable kernels don't have one KDUMP_IMG_EXT="kdump"
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