kdump does not work when using NMI to panic

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • kdump does not work when using NMI to panic. The system hangs while running a SysVinit script.
  • The kdump does work correctly using SysRq-c.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kdump
  • panic by NMI

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