Kdump service fails to start and status show "kdumpctl[xxxx]: y" and service is stuck. Why?
Issue
- Kdump service fails to start and status show "kdumpctl[xxxx]: y" and service is stuck. Why?
● kdump.service - Crash recovery kernel arming
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdump.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (start) since Fri 2023-04-21 06:28:04 IST; 1h 4min ago
Main PID: 7052 (kdumpctl)
Tasks: 8 (limit: 404580)
Memory: 22.0M
CGroup: /system.slice/kdump.service
├─7052 /bin/bash /usr/bin/kdumpctl start
├─7054 /bin/bash /usr/bin/kdumpctl start
├─7094 /bin/bash --norc /sbin/mkdumprd -f /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64kdump.img 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64
├─7313 xargs dracut
├─7314 /bin/bash -p /usr/bin/dracut --add kdumpbase --quiet --hostonly --hostonly-cmdline --hostonly-i18n --hostonly-mode strict -o plymouth dash resume ifcfg earlykdump --mount /dev/mapper/rhel-kdump /kdumproot/kdump xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,
noquota,nofail,x-systemd.before=initrd-fs.target --no-hostonly-default-device -f /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64kdump.img 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64
├─7333 /bin/cat
├─9329 /bin/bash -p /usr/bin/dracut --add kdumpbase --quiet --hostonly --hostonly-cmdline --hostonly-i18n --hostonly-mode strict -o plymouth dash resume ifcfg earlykdump --mount /dev/mapper/rhel-kdump /kdumproot/kdump xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,
noquota,nofail,x-systemd.before=initrd-fs.target --no-hostonly-default-device -f /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64kdump.img 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64
└─9330 yes <-----
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Apr 21 07:32:14 localhost kdumpctl[9330]: y
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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