Kdump does not drop to shell when it fails to collect vmcore.
Issue
- "default shell" is defined in /etc/kdump.conf but still kdump does not drop to shell when it fails to collect vmcore and system simply reboots afterwards.
kdump: dump target is
kdump: error: Dump target is not mounted.
kdump: saving vmcore failed
Job for emergency.service canceled.
[ 3.364147] systemd[1]: Stopping Sockets.
[ 3.364690] systemd[1]: Stopped target Sockets.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- kexec-tools-2.0.7-19.el7.x86_64
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