Hello, This is expected behavior. When an upstart job exists for a service, which is the case for kdump-tools, the $ service command will execute (see /usr/sbin/service) :
$ status kdump-tools On a systemd enabled system (Wily) you would get : $ service kdump-tools status ● kdump-tools.service - Kernel crash dump capture service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/kdump-tools.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since mar. 2016-01-05 09:22:24 CET; 5h 41min ago Process: 3489 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/kdump-tools start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 3489 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 (limit: 512) Memory: 0B CPU: 0 CGroup: /system.slice/kdump-tools.service So I agree with the last comment : using kdump-config status is the way to go. ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1528759 Title: ISST-LTE: kdump service fails to start on Ubuntu14.04.4 lpar. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1528759/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs