Arch Kdump

[aidan-gibson]

Explain what happens

KDump doesn't work on Arch. It says to install kexec-tools. I have kexec-tools. Is there another needed package I'm missing?

Version of Cockpit

324-1

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Kdump

Server operating system

Arch Linux

Server operating system version

6.10.9-zen1-2-zen

What browsers are you using?

Chrome

System log

No response

[jelly]

This isn't as much of a Cockpit bug as it's a lack of kdump support for Arch Linux. Every distribution has its own kdump tooling and currently Arch Linux has neither.

Valve has been working on kdump support in the form of kdumpst so that would be the most interesting candidate for Cockpit properly support kdump on Arch Linux.

But so far this has a couple of issues:

• Requires setting crashkernel
• Requires grub
• kdumpst is not packaged in the repositories

Furthermore it likely won't support dumping to nfs/over ssh. So the Cockpit UI needs to understand that.