Bug 817044 - mkdumprd: Use --hostonly and --add <module> while calling dracut
Summary: mkdumprd: Use --hostonly and --add <module> while calling dracut
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kexec-tools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Baoquan He
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-27 13:53 UTC by Vivek Goyal
Modified: 2013-02-25 08:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-25 08:53:09 UTC
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Description Vivek Goyal 2012-04-27 13:53:41 UTC
Description of problem:

Currently kdump is using -m kdumpbase. Harald mentioned generally -m means that dracut should include modules only specified by -m and nothing else. He recommended that we use --add instead. I think it makes sense that we don't want
to know about all the modules and let dracut decide which modules to include.

It also has a flip side that dracut might include too many modules, I think we will have to do more research and debugging and sort out these issues slowly.

Also start using --hostonly. I noticed that in my virtual machine, size of
generated initramfs comes down if I am using --add and --hostonly.

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Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2012-05-02 02:44:38 UTC
kexec-tools-2.0.3-46.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kexec-tools-2.0.3-46.fc17

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-05-02 20:30:34 UTC
Package kexec-tools-2.0.3-46.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kexec-tools-2.0.3-46.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7056/kexec-tools-2.0.3-46.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-05-03 02:24:32 UTC
kexec-tools-2.0.3-47.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kexec-tools-2.0.3-47.fc17

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-02-25 08:08:00 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-02-25 08:10:09 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.


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