No indication on X console that a kdump dump is being taken.
Issue
- Kdump takes significant amount of time to write vmcore on systems with large amounts of memory, during this time user has no feedback about a vmcore progress, user just sees a frozen X11 screen.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- kexec-tools-1.102pre-56.el5_3.1
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