Kdump service takes very long time to start and eventually gets hung

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Issue

  • Upon starting the kdump service, it takes extremely long time to start and doesn't show any symptoms of its progress.

  • Kdump initrd is already built but still the service takes a long time to start.

  • This also happens during boot time eventually making the system too long to boot-up.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • kexec-tools

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