Kdump service is getting failed to start due to read only filesystem in RHEL6.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kdump service is getting failed with the error showing as below.
Stopping kdump:                                            [  OK  ]
Detected change(s) the following file(s):

  /etc/kdump.conf
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64kdump.img
mount: /dev/mapper/newvg-newlv already mounted or /tmp/tmp.fqsswv1leP busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/newvg-newlv is mounted on /var/crash
/etc/kdump.conf: Bad mount point UUID=a1208cc5-bbc9-4abc-8c3d-48320e874505
Failed to run mkdumprd
Starting kdump:                                            [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Kdump

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