Kdump fails to generate vmcore on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with lvm snapshot.
Issue
Kdumpfails to generatevmcoreand reports following messages in system console.
[ 123.461072] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 124.013552] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 124.519134] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 125.024602] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 125.529987] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 126.035644] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 126.541033] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 127.046671] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
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[ 183.675954] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 183.677589] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: Could not boot.
[ 183.678933] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: /dev/mapper/rhel-root does not exist
[ 183.680407] dracut-initqueue[243]: Warning: /dev/rhel/root does not exist
[ OK ] Stopped target Basic System.
[ OK ] Stopped target System Initialization.
Starting Kdump Emergency...
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- lvm-snapshot
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