From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: atempting to start netdump server fails because the netconsole module is missing. The netdump init.d script is simply a wraper for starting netsonsole service netdump start netdump@netdump-server's password: initializing netdump modprobe: Can't locate module netconsole [FAILED] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install redhat 7.3 , including netdump and netdump-server on a virgin box 2.configure netdump (sysconfig/netdump) to dump to localhost (or any other box with netdump-server installled) 3.service start sysconfig Actual Results: % service netdump start netdump@netdump-server's password: initializing netdump modprobe: Can't locate module netconsole [FAILED] Expected Results: [ OK ] Additional info:
oops! It's the netdump client which refuses to startup, not the server. the netdump server starts up just fine (as can be implicitly determined from my session capture)
The netconsole module is provided by the kernel, for kernels for which the netdump facility is provided; Red Hat Linux 7.3's kernel does not provide this facility. We included the netdump packages so that Red Hat Linux 7.3 could act as a netdump-server and it's one source package; also, if we ever add netconsole/netdump support to an errata kernel the necessary user-space package is already there.