Is this a new server? I would recommend running your settings in a VM and seeing if they work. I've had kdump fail due to mis-provisioned boxes before (such as missing disks).
Thanks, Alice Goldfuss SRE, Metrics Pipeline New Relic On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh and btw, is there any reason that you're running 4.9.0 and not the > usual 3.10.0 kernel on el7/centos? That might explain some of the > breakage.. > > Vincent > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, lejeczek wrote: > > > it does not start at all > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 6 12:45 var/lock -> > > ../run/lock > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 6 12:45 var/run -> ../run > > ======================================================================== > > *** Creating initramfs image file > > '/boot/initramfs-4.9.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64kdump.img' done *** > > No memory reserved for crash kernel. > > Starting kdump: [FAILED] > > kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > > > > Centos 7.x > > I've tried various args to crashkernel= but no help from it. Different > > kernels, official and third-parties, still fails. > > BIOS?? Some advise on Intel switch off IOMMU, which I did although it's > AMD. > > > > > > On 06/01/17 14:57, [email protected] wrote: > >> What's your OS and what are the relevant parts of your kdump.conf? > >> when you mention it does work. is it that it doesn't kdump at all, > panics > >> upon entering the kdump kernel or some other thing? > >> > >> Vincent > >> > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, lejeczek wrote: > >> > >>> hi all > >>> > >>> mine does not, I have a few R815 none is good, and I've > >>> tampered with it in many ways, cannot get it to work. > >>> With IOMMU disabled still no good.... gee. > >>> > >>> best, > >>> L. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >
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