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kexec-tools package

  1. Bug #600055
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 600055

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

Binary package hint: kexec-tools

When /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/0_kdump is run, only the root partition has been mounted. Since it needs to read /boot/vmcoreinfo-$KVER, run /usr/bin/makedumpfile, and write /var/crash/vmcore and /var/crash/vmcore.log, it will fail if any of those files are on separate partitions.

In the /boot or /usr case, it will actually fail in such a way as to cause the rest of the system to continue booting inside the crash kernel (bug 600051)!