No kdump initial ramdisk found.

[unix syzadmin]

The issue was with password-less ssh.
I figured out the problem.  It had to do with specifying the key to use for
ssh to netdump server in ~/.ssh/config file.


#pwd
/root/.ssh

# cat config
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.us1

# service kdump start
No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.el5kdump.img
Starting kdump:                                            [  OK  ]

I also tested using your procedure to manually crash the server and it
worked; could see a 48G vmcore file created on the netdump server.
Thanks for your help.



On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Tanweer Noor <tanweer.noor at gmail.com>wrote:

> did you reboot system? if not, please do so. then check whether the system
> is already generating a vmcore. Look on the console (either at the machine
> directly, or through a kvm or serial console interface). If kdump is
> already
> running, just wait for it to finish.
>  If kdump is not running, you can start it by pressing Alt + SysRq
> (PrintScreen) + C. This will instruct the kernel to panic and generate a
> vmcore.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I initiated the kernel panic as you suggested; I get this on the console.
> >
> > SysRq : Trigger a crashdump
> > Kexec: Warning: crash image not loaded
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: SysRq-triggered panic!
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Tanweer Noor <tanweer.noor at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > >> Add Boot Parameters
> > >
> > > add below line under /etc/grub.conf
> > >
> > >  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> > > crashkernel=128M at 16M
> > >
> > >
> > > open /etc/kdump.conf and uncomment dump location to /var/crash/
> > >
> > > then run below:-
> > >
> > >  #  chkconfig kdump on
> > >  #  service kdump start
> > >
> > >
> > > Warning: This will panic your kernel, killing all services on the
> machine
> > >
> > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> > > # echo "c" > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> > >
> > > if it does not dump core then run below
> > >
> > > service kdump start
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I am having issues configuring kdump on my linux server.
> > > >
> > > > # service kdump start
> > > > No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
> > > > Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.el5kdump.img
> > > > /etc/kdump.conf: Could not create user1 at server1:/var/crash, you
> > probably
> > > > need to run "service kdump propagate"
> > > > Failed to run mkdumprd
> > > >
> > > > how did I configure kdump?
> > > > ====================
> > > > # grep crashkernel /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > > >        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 ro root=/dev/sysvg/root.fs
> nohpet
> > > > nopmtimer powernow-k8.tscsync=1 crashkernel=128M at 16M
> > > >
> > > > # grep net /etc/kdump.conf
> > > > net user1 at server1
> > > >
> > > > The root user on this server is able to ssh to user1 at server1 without
> > > > password; tested this to be working with the following command line:
> > > >
> > > > #ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.us1 user1 at server1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions or pointers is appreciated.
> > > > Thanks.
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