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kexec-tools: issue warning when dd'ing vmcore

With no warning, it just looks like the box has hung during boot.

We don't want users resetting it without having captured a crashdump.

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <[email protected]>
Philip Prindeville 8 years ago
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 1
      package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile
  2. 2 0
      package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init

+ 1 - 1
package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=kexec-tools
 PKG_VERSION:=2.0.14
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@KERNEL/linux/utils/kernel/kexec

+ 2 - 0
package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init

@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ run_kdump() {
 	timestamp=$(date "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")
 
 	if [ "$save_vmcore" -eq 1 ]; then
+		echo -n "Saving vmcore (this may take a while)..."
 		# would like 'sparse' but busybox doesn't support it
 		dd if=/proc/vmcore of="$path/vmcore-$timestamp" conv=fsync bs=1M
+		echo " done"
 	fi
 
 	if [ "$save_dmesg" -eq 1 ]; then