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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1475497 Title: Unable to configure Firmware Assisted dump Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: ---Steps to Reproduce--- 1) Using latest daily ISO install ubuntu15.10 as a Power VM guest. 2) Upgrade the kernel to 4 level (4.0.0-4-generic) 3) In order to use Firmware Assisted Dump feature update the kernel command with fadump=on. 4) Reboot. Post reboot using kdump-config load command fails with following message : # kdump-config load Memory for crashkernel is not reserved Please reserve memory by passing"crashkernel=X@Y" parameter to kernel Then try to loading kdump kernel * failed to load kdump kernel # kdump-config status current state : Not ready to kdump #cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-4.0.0-4-generic root=UUID=6298dfdc-e683-473d-a8bc-b3249731b356 ro splash quiet fadump=on fadump_reserve_mem=512M crashkernel=512M #cat /sys/kernel/fadump_enabled 1 #cat /sys/kernel/fadump_registered 0 # dmesg | grep -i Firmware [ 0.000000] Reserved 512MB of memory at 3583MB for firmware-assisted dump [ 0.000000] firmware_features = 0x00000001c45ffc5f #cat /boot/config-4.0.0-4-generic | grep -i FA_DUMP CONFIG_FA_DUMP=y I think userspace tool is missing for fadump as kdump config file not aware about fadump To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475497/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
