Couple of questions for FC5, T3

[Rahul Sundaram]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>Just a couple of questions:
>
>1) Is there a fix for kudzu?  It currently core dumps.  If there
>    is a fix, what do I use for Yum command line?
>  
>
# yum update and check if it has been fixed.

>2) What is kdump?  I guess I may have inadvetenly add this
>    package in - but in any case there is a warning message
>    in yellow that kdump could not find the core dump file.  I
>    tried to read up on in but it is still vague as to it's uses.
>    Comments?  Should I remove this from my test system?
>
>  
>
Kdump is a crash dumping tool.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/OverView
http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Using_Kexec_and_Kdump_in_Rawhide

The warning is harmless since a crash dump image wouldnt be there by 
default.  I have a RFE to disable the service by default at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183633




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Rahul