Starting of a service fails

[Roger Heflin]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 01/07/2013 08:26 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/07/2013 07:55 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> correct grub line for
>>>> that kernel?
>>>
>>>
>>> what correct grub line for that kernel ?  it is in /boot/grub2/grub.conf
>>>
>> The line that booted the current kernel did not have a crashkernel
>> option on it, you either
>> have it on the wrong line in the grub.conf file, or a different
>> grub.conf is being used than you expect or it has
>> not been rebooted since the option was added.
>>
>> Double check that link that was posted and make sure all is done right.
>
>
>
> Thanks Roger, After I sent the reply it occurred to me what you were talking
> about.
>
> $cat /proc/cmdline
>
> OOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.2-1.fc17.i686
> root=UUID=cf5a1042-bb2b-4c6b-a0e0-1da27273d413 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0
> SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet
> crashkernel=128M
>
> I ran    # systemctl start kdump.service  and it still failed to start
>
> I did restart the computer.
>
> Error in messages for starting kdump;
>
> Jan  7 21:07:12 localhost kdump: kexec: failed to load kdump kernel
> Jan  7 21:07:12 localhost kdumpctl[1735]: Starting kdump:
> Jan  7 21:07:12 localhost kdump: failed to start up
> Jan  7 21:07:12 localhost systemd[1]: kdump.service: main process exited,
> code=exited, status=1
> Jan  7 21:07:12 localhost systemd[1]: Unit kdump.service entered failed
> state.
>
>

/var/log/messages may tell you why it is erroring.

Note that kdump will rebuild the initird so if there is something
wrong with the initrd build process that will cause a failure.