Kdump service fails to start due to a missing kernel module
Issue
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Is there any way to exclude or blacklist certain third party kernel modules during the generation of the kdump initrd image ?
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How can I exclude or blacklist a module from the kdump initrd image file?
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The
kdump
service fails to start during boot time and displays the following error:No module <module-name> found for kernel <kernel version>, aborting. kdump: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd
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Starting the
kdump
service fails with error "No module dsa_filter found for kernel<version>
, aborting."# service kdump status Kdump is operational # service kdump restart Stopping kdump: [ OK ] Detected change(s) the following file(s): /etc/kdump.conf Rebuilding /boot/initrd-<kernel-version>kdump.img No module dsa_filter found for kernel <kernel-version>, aborting. Failed to run mkdumprd Starting kdump: [FAILED]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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