Kdump service fails to start with error message "More than one dump targets specified"
Issue
- Kdump service fails to start. Upon checking the kdump service status, the following error messages are observed.
- Dumping vmcore file on a disk.
kdumpctl: More than one dump targets specified.
kdumpctl: Starting kdump: [FAILED]
systemd[1]: kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/
systemd[1]: Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming.
-- Subject: Unit kdump.service has failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, v7.x
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