No indication on X console that a kdump dump is being taken.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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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