Description of problem: The /sbin/mkdumprd in RHEL5.3_Alpha can no longer parse the core_collector line in /etc/kdump.conf. The line looks like: core_collector makedumpfile -d 31 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL5.3_Alpha 2.6.18-118.el5 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure kdump. 2. Add the above line to /etc/kdump.conf. 3. Service kdump restart. Actual results: /sbin/mkdumprd: line 1716: test: too many arguments /etc/kdump.conf: Need a location for core_collector Expected results: Should work (worked in RHEL5.2). Additional info: I have temporarily hacked /sbin/mkdumprd for our use to get around this by changing line 1752 to read: kdmup_chk "test -n \"$config_val\"" "Need a location for $config_opt" That is, I removed two extra pairs of back slashes around "$config_opt", making this line the same as it was in RHEL5.2. (You probably want to do this in a cleaner way...)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463878 ***