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[Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811692

Title:
  udev coldplug will interrupt makedumpfile

Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in makedumpfile source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in makedumpfile source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in makedumpfile source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in makedumpfile source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  During kdump on i386 systems, udev will restart kdump-tools, which will kill makedumpfile during dump capture, causing the system to reboot without capturing a dump.

  [Test case]
  After the fix, a dump could be captured on i386. Other arches were tested and worked just as fine.

  [Regression potential]
  Systems could fail to have a dump captured, but it was tested to not be the case.

  ===============

  After introducing the udev rules to restart kdump-tools service when
  there is memory or cpu hotplug, it will be restarted during coldplug
  as well. This will cause the dump capture itself to be interrupted
  after a crash. When it is restarted and tries to dump again, it will
  find an existing dump file and will fail to dump.

  My proposed solution is to use a different systemd service for the
  real capture.

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