Kdump on Fedora - has it been superseded ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Jan 2 04:21:00 UTC 2008


Mohammed Omar wrote:
> Does Fedora supports kdump ? (especially F8)
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=fedora+8+kdump

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/iso/en_US/sn-Kernel.html#sn-Kernel-Flavors
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_105_9036.shtm

 From the release notes, it seems like it should be available, however, 
I don't see any separate kernel-kdump kernels since FC6, with the latest 
being:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/
   kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.i686.rpm   25-Jun-2007

Following the kernel spec:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/kernel/F-7/kernel-2.6.spec?rev=1.3405&view=log

shows:

For F8:
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Fri Aug 10 06:32:43 2007 UTC (4 months, 3 weeks ago) by roland
spec fix for kdump kernel
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For F7:
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Tue Jun 5 04:44:46 2007 UTC (6 months, 4 weeks ago) by davej
* Tue Jun 05 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Allow kdump to read /proc/kcore. (#241362)
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Sat Feb 3 17:13:17 2007 UTC (10 months, 4 weeks ago) by davej
remove last its of -kdump for 686
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Wed Dec 13 19:34:03 2006 UTC (12 months, 2 weeks ago) by davej
kill off -kdump for 686/x86-64
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It seems the capability was disabled during F7 and is no longer supported ?

If this is correct - the release notes {live} need an update, along with 
the howto at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6KdumpKexecHowTo

DaveT.




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