F20 System Wide Change: Enable kdump on secureboot machines

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Fri Jul 12 14:55:33 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 02:09:54PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 14:13 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> > I think this is a wrong impression. Kdump should work in Fedora. For a
> > long time I got the feedback that fedora users don't care about kdump
> > working. But I think kdump is an important debugging facility and is
> > very useful for enterprise distro. So at times it should be useful for
> > fedora users too.
> > 
> > So now I am trying to make sure things work well in Fedora.
> 
> FWIW, dedoimedo (a notoriously tough distro reviewer) mentioned to me in
> private correspondence that he's been hitting a kernel crash with F19
> with one of his test systems and he'd want to use kdump to try and
> diagnose it, only it doesn't work on live images, he says. Is that
> accurate? If so, can it be made to work on live images?

I have never tested kdump on live images. What's the problem he is facing?

Thanks
Vivek


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