Bug 589937 - kdump is enabled by default but not configured
Summary: kdump is enabled by default but not configured
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 581422
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Neil Horman
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Reported: 2010-05-07 10:55 UTC by Stefan Assmann
Modified: 2010-05-07 16:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-05-07 16:35:39 UTC
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Description Stefan Assmann 2010-05-07 10:55:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
kdump seems to be enabled by default in RHEL6. After the installation I see the following in the boot messages:
no kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64kdump.img
Starting kdump: [FAILED]

However kdump isn't even configured properly. There's no kernel commandline parameter specified. Starting system-config-kdump also failed with "This system does not have enough memory for kdump to be viable."

System has 512MB, shouldn't that be enough to run kdump?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kexec-tools-2.0.0-68.el6.x86_64
system-config-kdump-2.0.2.1-11.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-07 12:58:30 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 3 Neil Horman 2010-05-07 16:35:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 581422 ***
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