First of all, doing ponytail on a 3 year old bug is not going to bring you much attention.
Especially since this bug pertains to a mechanism that is now only used on Precise. It is unfortunate though that the server guide is misleading on how to configure kernel dump. I would suggest to open a bug against the server guide to have this fixed.
This page does a pretty good job at documenting how to generate a kernel crash dump :
First of all, doing ponytail on a 3 year old bug is not going to bring you much attention.
Especially since this bug pertains to a mechanism that is now only used on Precise. It is unfortunate though that the server guide is misleading on how to configure kernel dump. I would suggest to open a bug against the server guide to have this fixed.
This page does a pretty good job at documenting how to generate a kernel crash dump :
https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Kernel/ CrashdumpRecipe
TL;DR : Once the linux-crashdump package has been installed & the server rebooted you need to change the following in /etc/default/ kdump-tools :
USE_KDUMP=1
Then :
$ sudo kdump-config load
For any other visiting this bug, please refrain from adding to it, it is no longer relevant as the kernel dump mechanism has changed