System doesn't halt when vmcore dumping fails even if failure_action is set to halt

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • failure_action halt does not work when kdump fails, system is rebooted by default.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • kexec-tools-2.0.19-12.el8.x86_64

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