UbuntuKVM:Ubuntu16.10:makekdumpfile fails during kdump reboot

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Problem Description:
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makedumpfile Fails during kdump reboot

Steps to re-create:
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- Install abakvm with 4.8.0-26
- Edit /etc/default/grub.cfg file with crashkernel as in the following:

Logs:
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root@abakvm:~# cat /proc/cmdline
root=UUID=0ed530b3-0f14-45b8-93a8-7502ee36d45f ro splash quiet crashkernel=2G-4G:320M,4G-32G:512M,32G-64G:1024M,64G-128G:2048M,128G-:4096M
root@abakvm:~# uname -r
4.8.0-26-generic
root@abakvm:~# ls -lh /var/lib/kdump
total 31M
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Oct 17 03:10 initramfs-tools
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Oct 24 05:07 initrd.img -> /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img-4.8.0-26-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16M Oct 17 05:09 initrd.img-4.8.0-22-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16M Oct 24 04:56 initrd.img-4.8.0-26-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 24 05:07 vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinux-4.8.0-26-generic
root@abakvm:~# kdump-config show
DUMP_MODE: kdump
USE_KDUMP: 1
KDUMP_SYSCTL: kernel.panic_on_oops=1
KDUMP_COREDIR: /var/crash
crashkernel addr:
   /var/lib/kdump/vmlinuz: symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-4.8.0-26-generic
kdump initrd:
   /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img: symbolic link to /var/lib/kdump/initrd.img-4.8.0-26-generic
current state: ready to kdump

kexec command:
  /sbin/kexec -p --command-line="root=UUID=0ed530b3-0f14-45b8-93a8-7502ee36d45f ro splash quiet irqpoll nr_cpus=1 nousb systemd.unit=kdump-tools.service" --initrd=/var/lib/kdump/initrd.img /var/lib/kdump/vmlinuz
root@abakvm:~# dmesg | grep Reser
[ 0.000000] Reserving 4096MB of memory at 128MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 131072MB)
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 6560 MiB at 0x0000001e56000000
root@abakvm:~#

- Initiate crash, and when checked in console logs the follwoing makekdumpfile is failing
Logs:
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         Starting Kernel crash dump capture service...
         Starting LSB: Start NTP daemon...
[ 255.138066] kdump-tools[6019]: Starting kdump-tools: * running makedumpfile -c -d 31 /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201610240645/dump-incomplete
[ 255.218513] kdump-tools[6019]: get_mem_map: Can't distinguish the memory type.
[ 255.218832] kdump-tools[6019]: The kernel version is not supported.
[ 255.219086] kdump-tools[6019]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.
[ 255.219385] kdump-tools[6019]: makedumpfile Failed.
[ 255.219559] kdump-tools[6019]: * kdump-tools: makedumpfile failed, falling back to 'cp'

== Comment: #1 - Vaishnavi Bhat <email address hidden> - 2016-10-26 06:05:26 ==
The makedumpfile.h defines the latest kernel version as 4.5.3 where as the uname output gives a higher kernel version (4.8.0 ), Hence we are seeing this message in the dmesg.

#define OLDEST_VERSION KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 15)/* linux-2.6.15 */
#define LATEST_VERSION KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 3)/* linux-4.5.3 */

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-11-06 22:53 EDT-------
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146571 ***