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Installing linux-crashdump doesn't touch grub config

Asked by Ralf Hildebrandt

According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/CrashdumpRecipe, merely installing linux-crashdump would setup the system in a way suitable to create kernel crashdumps. At least I'm guessing this, since the latest version mentioned there is 10.04 while I'm at 11.04.

I rebooted after installation and don't find any crashkernel settings:

# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-16-generic-pae root=UUID=d56261cc-18d4-4c35-941d-e231b5de0a78 ro noquiet nosplash

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: linux-crashdump 3.0.0.16.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic-pae 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 2012-03-09 09:43 seq
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2012-03-09 09:43 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Fri Mar 9 09:52:02 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=49d6c51a-0bd5-483e-9e9e-e6a63a14687e
Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: HP ProLiant DL360 G3
PciMultimedia:

ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-16-generic-pae root=UUID=d56261cc-18d4-4c35-941d-e231b5de0a78 ro noquiet nosplash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-16-generic-pae N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-16-generic-pae N/A
 linux-firmware 1.60
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-21 (108 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/01/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: HP
dmi.bios.version: P31
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: HP
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHP:bvrP31:bd05/01/2004:svnHP:pnProLiantDL360G3:pvr:cvnHP:ct23:cvr:
dmi.product.name: ProLiant DL360 G3
dmi.sys.vendor: HP

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This question was originally filed as bug #950644.

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) said : 		#1
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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) said : 		#2

Turns out that removing & purging everything (kexec-tools for example had been installed a long time ago) and then reinstalling linux-crashdump does indeed add the crashkernel settings to the grub config. So it's clearly a bug and I fail to see why you converted this to a question instead.