failed to load kdump kernel
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kexec-tools (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps:
1) In VMWare ESXi create VM with OS Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
2) In Ubuntu compiled and installed Xen 4.11.1~
3) Next installed kexec-tools 2.0.16 and kdump-tools 1.6.3-2
4) In /etc/default/
5) update-grub
6) reboot
After reboot i try check status: sudo service kdump-tools status
And get:
● kdump-tools.service - Kernel crash dump capture service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2018-09-25 05:06:10 UTC; 34s ago
Process: 1046 ExecStart=
Main PID: 1046 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 systemd[1]: Starting Kernel crash dump capture service...
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: Starting kdump-tools: * Creating symlink /var/lib/
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: * Creating symlink /var/lib/
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: Memory for crashkernel is not reserved
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: Please reserve memory by passing"
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: Then try to loading kdump kernel
сен 25 05:06:09 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1046]: * failed to load kdump kernel
сен 25 05:06:10 ptms-all-qa7 kdump-tools[1347]: failed to load kdump kernel
сен 25 05:06:10 ptms-all-qa7 systemd[1]: Started Kernel crash dump capture service.
Log says "Memory for crashkernel is not reserved", but if run: sudo cat /proc/iomem | grep Crash
I get: 18000000-37ffffff : Crash kernel
What to do?
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.