Kdump service takes very long time to start and eventually gets hung
Issue
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Upon starting the kdump service, it takes extremely long time to start and doesn't show any symptoms of its progress.
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Kdump initrd is already built but still the service takes a long time to start.
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This also happens during boot time eventually making the system too long to boot-up.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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kexec-tools
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