Bug 587750 - kdump fails to start on x86_64
Summary: kdump fails to start on x86_64
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neil Horman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-30 19:10 UTC by Jeff Layton
Modified: 2014-06-18 07:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kexec-tools-2.0.0-34.fc13
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-04-30 23:43:18 UTC

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Description Jeff Layton 2010-04-30 19:10:21 UTC 
kdump fails to start in F13 on x86_64:

# service kdump start
Starting kdump:                                            [FAILED]

Running kexec manually shows:

# /sbin/kexec -p '--command-line=root=UUID=e070c867-d274-451b-a9db-d889fedebafd ro rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M irqpoll maxcpus=1 reset_devices' --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.33.2-57.fc13.x86_64kdump.img /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.2-57.fc13.x86_64
Can't find kernel text map area from kcore
Cannot load /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.2-57.fc13.x86_64

This may be the fix for it:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools.git;a=commit;h=c38ad602e15e5c7c4204d1a47e2fd1984cf98afb
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-04-30 19:32:28 UTC 
kexec-tools-2.0.0-34.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kexec-tools-2.0.0-34.fc13
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-04-30 23:43:14 UTC 
kexec-tools-2.0.0-34.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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