Kdump fails to generate the vmcore file over nfs or ssh when fips is enabled.
Issue
- The kdump fails to generate the vmcore over nfs or ssh when fips is enabled.
- The system is also getting hang upon failure instead of reboot though the default action set to reboot.
- Here is the console output from BIOS based system.
[ 51.009994] systemd-udevd[747]: Using default interface naming scheme 'rhel-9.1'.
[ 79.194004] dracut-pre-pivot[735]: Checking integrity of kernel
[ 79.219467] dracut-pre-pivot[735]: Warning: /boot//.vmlinuz-5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1.x86_64.hmac does not exist
[ 79.852488] dracut: FATAL: FIPS integrity test failed
[ 79.859432] dracut: Refusing to continue
[ 79.426567] systemd[1]: Shutting down.
..
[ 82.080815] systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to finalize loop devices, ignoring.
[ 82.087465] systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices.
[ 82.095373] systemd-shutdown[1]: Halting system.
[ 82.121202] reboot: System halted
- Here is the console output from UEFI based system.
[ 35.009994] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[655]: EFI loader partition unknown, exiting.
[ 35.009994] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[655]: (The boot loader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID.)
[ 60.012994] dracut: FATAL: FIPS integrity test failed
[ 60.019393] dracut: Refusing to continue
[ 61.009994] systemd-shutdonw[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Guest running on
Hyper-v or azure
- Guest running on
VMWare ESXI
- Guest running on
Nutanix
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