Kdump: Network interface failed to come up

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Issue

  • ethX failed to come up in capture kernel during kdump process.
  • Network failed to start in kdump.
  • NFS/SSH/net failed in kdump.
  • "ifup: Don't seem to have all the variable for eth0/net" shown in screen.
  • No ip address found in capture kernel.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kdump/kexec being used to capture vmcore

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