Description of problem: Running system-config-kdump on a newly installed system, enabling the service then hitting apply causes the service to fail with a very unusable error message. (Check out sytemctl something something, something or journal -xm) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-kdump2.0.10-1.f18 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fedora 18 2. Go through "firstboot" procedure, dont enable kdump 3. Run system-config-kdump, enable, then click apply. Actual results: An odd dialog box with 3 expandable options appears. Its super suspect, at least it tells you what kind of was happening. Expected results: Dialog box ----------------------------------------- The crashkernel parameter was not specified at system boot. This program will modifed the bootloader and the system restarted for this change to take effect: Would you like these changes made and restarted. (o) reboot now ( ) Make changes and let the administrator choose when to restart later. [ OK ] [ Apply] ------------------------------------------ Additional info: The original problem goes away, if you just restart, then go back into system-config-kdump after the system restarts and the crashkernel parameter is available the next time the program is run. TLDR; better error messages when crashkernel parameter is not available.
Thanks for the report. I commited an upstream change 8978f148559dc27e6648fde0c90ead4ab89da624 that skips starting the kdump service when there's no reserved memory. This way you should not see the error message because the command that produced it is not run.
system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc18
system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc19
Package system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12830/system-config-kdump-2.0.12-1.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
system-config-kdump-2.0.13-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-kdump-2.0.13-1.fc18
system-config-kdump-2.0.13-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-kdump-2.0.13-1.fc19
system-config-kdump-2.0.13-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.