kdump service fails to start up with "Invalid memory segment" error on a system running xen kernel

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Issue

After configuring kdump, the server was rebooted. However when starting up kdump service, "Invalid memory segment" error is thrown and the kdump service fails to start up.

Apr 18 19:23:05 HOSTNAME kdump: Invalid memory segment 0xffffffff80200000 - 0xffffffff80500fff
Apr 18 19:23:05 HOSTNAME kdump: kexec: failed to load kdump kernel
Apr 18 19:23:05 HOSTNAME kdump: failed to start up

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kernel-xen
  • kdump

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