Marking "Won't Fix" as trusty is ESM only now. Could as well be Invalid,
though it's possible there is a bug dumping a kexeced kernel.
** Also affects: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Won't
For the record, Guilherme and I concluded that when dumping a kexec
kernel, there may be leftover memory from the previous kernel which
causes the dump to be corrupted. That was after I ran some tests that
showed that when booting a 3.13.0-137, kexecing a 3.13.0-85, then
dumping, the dump would
Can you try using the makedumpfile on trusty-backports?
Thanks.
Cascardo.
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Title:
makedumpfile not able to use compression in trusty kernel
I managed to create successful compressed dumps with trusty makedumpfile
Version: 1.5.5-2ubuntu1.6, with both a linux-3.13.0-137 and a
linux-3.13.0-85. That was on an amd64 kvm system.
So, this tells me this is system dependent, and we need more information
on its configuration, and all the help
