Kdump fails with "smartpqi kdump init failed with error" message on console or fails to boot with "smartpqi controller is offline" message
Issue
- Kdump kernel gets reset by showing below messages in the serial console.
[ 13.280008] smartpqi 0000:b6:00.0: controller is offline: status code 0x2e015
[ 13.299097] smartpqi 0000:b6:00.0: kdump init failed with error -19
- Below are the messages before system reports IO error on multiple file systems at boot:
Aug 21 02:05:17 testbox kernel: smartpqi 0000:5c:00.0: controller is offline: status code 0x2f101 <<<
Aug 21 02:05:17 testbox kernel: smartpqi 0000:5c:00.0: controller is offline: reason code 0x5 (firmware kernel not ready)
Aug 21 02:05:17 testbox kernel: sd 1:1:0:0 [sda] tag#646 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_ages=9s
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Adaptec Smart Storage PQI SAS- smartpqi driver
- kdump
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