Hey,
On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 00:38 +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
We've merged several fixes lately about not always mounting the
root
fs,
does the latest kexec-tools(2.0.14-11) work for you?
A quick test suggests the issue persists. But I only upgraded kexec-
tools and dracut on the same machine. So it may be worth trying again
on a newer installation installation.
Benjamin
> On 05/15/2017 at 09:54 PM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to configure kernel dumping (on a Fedora 25 machine).
> > In
> > this case the installation is encrypted using LUKS so to make
> > things
> > work I decided to dump to /boot instead.
> >
> > Now, I do understand prompting for the LUKS password if the dump
> > path
> > is on an encrypted device (which mkdumprd helpfully warns about).
> >
> > But I don't see why dumping to e.g. an unencrypted partition like
> > /boot
> > instead (or through ssh) should even try to open any LUKS devices.
> > There is no warning generated in that case but I still get a prompt
> > for
> > the password and dumping will only proceed afterwards.
> >
> > This seems odd. Mounting anything other than the dump location
> > should
> > not be necessary for the dumping processes. So the LUKS device
> > should
> > not be opened in this particular case. It should only happen if the
> > user selected an encrypted volume as the dump target.
> >
> > Benjamin
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