kdump

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Eugene Goubine <egoubine at gmail.com>
| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:49:41 +0200

Sorry for the slow reply.  I only read sporadically.

| has anyone managed to see kdump working?

It has been broken for me (in F7 x86_64) for some time.  It now works
with a bug-fixed busybox package (in testing repository at the
moment).

The bug is also in F8 x86_64.  There is a fix coming soon to the
testing repository (or maybe it is there by now).

Have a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731

The F7 busybox bug is described in
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731#c12

This bug report was cloned for F8:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425873

I don't know if the bugs affected i386.


Summary of how to get the fix:

- install a fixed busybox package.
    su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update busybox'
  (This assumes that the F8 fix has made it to testing.)

- read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731#c12 for how
  to fix kdump (after installing a fixed busybox package)


I consider this bug-fixing to be a great success story: two users
reported and narrowed the problem.  Two RedHatters fixed the bug.

It was slightly confusing because the manifestation and the bug were
in different packages.  Furthermore the manifesting situation was
rather nasty: in the throws of a kernel panic.

I strongly recommend that we Fedora users don't just grumble about
bugs but try to submit high-quality bug reports to Bugzilla.