mkdumprd looks forever creating kdump initrd at boot

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Issue

  • mkdumprd looks forever creating kdump initrd at boot.
  • The issue occurs that kdump service never returns when initramfs is recreated for the service after kmod driver is installed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kexec-tools earlier than kexec-tools-2.0.0-300.el6_8.2

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