Kdump on Fedora - has it been superseded ?

Benjamin Lewis ben.lewis at benl.co.uk
Wed Jan 2 09:40:09 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 02 January 2008 04:21:00 am David Timms wrote:
> 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:
> ===
> Revision 1.78  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> Fri Aug 10 06:32:43 2007 UTC (4 months, 3 weeks ago) by roland
> spec fix for kdump kernel
> ===
>
> For F7:
> ===
> Revision 1.3214  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> 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)
> ===
> Revision 1.2918  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> Sat Feb 3 17:13:17 2007 UTC (10 months, 4 weeks ago) by davej
> remove last its of -kdump for 686
> ===
> Revision 1.2869  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> Wed Dec 13 19:34:03 2006 UTC (12 months, 2 weeks ago) by davej
> kill off -kdump for 686/x86-64
> ===
>
> It seems the capability was disabled during F7 and is no longer supported ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the default kernel now supported kdump, 
except on one of the PPC architectures (may be PPC64).

>
> 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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