Why does my system reboot after collecting a vmcore, even with the default directive set to "shell"?
Issue
- With
kdumpconfigured, the system automatically reboots after collecting a vmcore. In/etc/kdump.confthe parameterdefault shellis set and should prevent the reboot.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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