Why does kdump not work and I see "msh: can't execute 'makedumpfile': No such file or directory" in the kdump output?

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Issue

  • Why does kdump not work and when the kdump generation is started the following output appears?
msh: can't execute 'makedumpfile': No such file or directory
  • Why do I see the following error message in my kdump messages?
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
Free memory/Total memory (free %): 75348 / 113992 ( 66.0994 )
msh: can't execute 'makedumpfile': No such file or directory
Saving core complete
md: stopping all md devices.
Restarting system.
  • Why does my kdump-initrd not contain the file /usr/sbin/makedumpfile ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • kexec-tools

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