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Created attachment 525198 [details] kdump crash log Description of problem: On some systems the core_collector must be changed to cp for the core file to be written to disk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.7/5.8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup kdump 2. Invoke a crash 3. Actual results: The core file is not written to disk. Expected results: The core file should saved to disk. Additional info: Changing the core_collector to cp allows kdump to work _most_ of the time. Attached file shows a possible recursive lock and an unexpected IRQ trap.
What does the kdump.conf looks like? Make sure you having a dump target defined and "default shell" set. Also, if you have any kdump_pre and kdump_post script? There were some vital information missing from the console output. Can you extract the kdump initramfs and add "#!/bin/msh -x" to "init", and then put it back and re-run with new console output attached? Right now, it will reboot your system in those situations.
# Configures where to put the kdump /proc/vmcore files # # This file contains a series of commands to perform (in order) when a # kernel crash has happened and the kdump kernel has been loaded. Directives in # this file are only applicable to the kdump initramfs, and have no effect if # the root filesystem is mounted and the normal init scripts are processed My modified kdump.conf is as follows: # # Currently only one dump target and path may be configured at once # if the configured dump target fails, the default action will be preformed # the default action may be configured with the default directive below. If the # configured dump target succedes # # See the kdump.conf(5) man page for details of configuration directives #raw /dev/sda5 #ext3 /dev/sda3 #ext3 LABEL=/boot #ext3 UUID=03138356-5e61-4ab3-b58e-27507ac41937 #net my.server.com:/export/tmp #net user.com #path /var/crash #core_collector makedumpfile -c --message-level 1 #core_collector cp --sparse=always core_collector cp #link_delay 60 #kdump_post /var/crash/scripts/kdump-post.sh #extra_bins /usr/bin/lftp #disk_timeout 30 #extra_modules gfs2 #options modulename options #default shell The default kdump.conf had all lines commented out. I'm gathering the output from the kdump initrd now. Will post separately.
Created attachment 526308 [details] kdump crash log with -x added to init
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