Kdump fails when NFS mount is not mounted
Issue
- Starting the
kdump
service fails journald
indicates the mount point is likely not mounted. It will look similar to the following:
# systemctl status -l kdump.service
● kdump.service - Crash recovery kernel arming
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdump.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-09-13 10:59:49 EDT; 7s ago
Process: 112357 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kdumpctl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 112357 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 13 10:59:48 nfs-clinet.example.com [1]: Starting Crash recovery kernel arming...
Sep 13 10:59:48 nfs-clinet.example.com kdumpctl[112357]: No kdump initial ramdisk found.
Sep 13 10:59:48 nfs-clinet.example.com kdumpctl[112357]: Rebuilding /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64kdump.img
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com kdumpctl[112357]: Dump target nfs-server.example.com:/kdump is probably not mounted.
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com kdumpctl[112357]: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com kdumpctl[112357]: Starting kdump: [FAILED]
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com systemd[1]: kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming.
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com systemd[1]: Unit kdump.service entered failed state.
Sep 13 10:59:49 nfs-clinet.example.com systemd[1]: kdump.service failed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 - 7.2
kexec-tools
below versionkexec-tools-2.0.7-50.el7
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