Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to start kdump service in my local system. But it shows me the below error.

$ systemctl start kdump
Job for kdump.service failed. See 'systemctl status kdump.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
$ systemctl status kdump.service
kdump.service - Crash recovery kernel arming
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdump.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-06-11 10:34:48 CEST; 3min 10s ago
Process: 2259 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kdumpctl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2259 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 11 10:34:47 rhel7 systemd[1]: Starting Crash recovery kernel arming...
Jun 11 10:34:48 rhel7 kdumpctl[2259]: No memory reserved for crash kernel.
Jun 11 10:34:48 rhel7 kdumpctl[2259]: Starting kdump: [FAILED]
Jun 11 10:34:48 rhel7 systemd[1]: kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 11 10:34:48 rhel7 systemd[1]: Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming.
Jun 11 10:34:48 rhel7 systemd[1]: Unit kdump.service entered failed state.

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

To avoid this error you can follow these below given steps.

• To use the kdump service, you must have the kexec-tools package installed. If not already installed, install the kexec-tools.

$ yum install kexec-tools

• Configuring Memory Usage in GRUB2. To configure the amount of memory that is reserved for the kdump kernel, modify /etc/default/grub and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX , set crashkernel=[size] parameter to the list of kernel options.

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=centos/root crashkernel=512M  vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

• Run the below given command to regenerate grub configuration.

$ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

• Reboot the system to make the kernel parameter effect.

• Configuring Dump Location at /etc/kdump.conf file and set the below given lines.

path /usr/local/cores
nfs my.server.com:/export/tmp
core_collector makedumpfile -c
default halt

• start the service in the current session, use the following command.

$ systemctl start kdump.service

Hope this will help.

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Thank You .. Resolved