| From: Eugene Goubine <egoubine@xxxxxxxxx> | Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:49:41 +0200 Sorry for the slow reply. I only read sporadically. | has anyone managed to see kdump working? It has been broken for me (in F7 x86_64) for some time. It now works with a bug-fixed busybox package (in testing repository at the moment). The bug is also in F8 x86_64. There is a fix coming soon to the testing repository (or maybe it is there by now). Have a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731 The F7 busybox bug is described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731#c12 This bug report was cloned for F8: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425873 I don't know if the bugs affected i386. Summary of how to get the fix: - install a fixed busybox package. su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update busybox' (This assumes that the F8 fix has made it to testing.) - read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731#c12 for how to fix kdump (after installing a fixed busybox package) I consider this bug-fixing to be a great success story: two users reported and narrowed the problem. Two RedHatters fixed the bug. It was slightly confusing because the manifestation and the bug were in different packages. Furthermore the manifesting situation was rather nasty: in the throws of a kernel panic. I strongly recommend that we Fedora users don't just grumble about bugs but try to submit high-quality bug reports to Bugzilla.
