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OCI- Kdump service is not starting in an Oracle Linux 8 System when secure boot enabled

edited Mar 5, 2025 10:23AM in Linux

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Kdump service failed and is not starting up in an Oracle Linux 8 System when secure boot enabled on the system

$ systemctl status kdump
● kdump.service - Crash recovery kernel arming  
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdump.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)  
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-04-06 13:15:31 EDT; 31min ago Process: 2150 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kdumpctl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)Main PID: 2150 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jan 06 13:15:27 servername dracut[3031]: *** Squashing the files inside the initramfs >
Jan 06 13:15:30 servername dracut[3031]: *** Squashing the files inside the initramfs >
Jan 06 13:15:30 servername dracut[3031]: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-5.4.>
Jan 06 13:15:31 servername dracut[3031]: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/init>
Jan 06 13:15:31 servername kdumpctl[2340]: 

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