OCI: Kdump Service Fails to Start on Oracle Linux 8 Server

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux OS 

Symptoms

kdump service fails to start with the following error messages.

[root@xxxxx ~]#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 Wed 2025-02-05 14:49:49 EDT; 44s ago

 Process: 2164 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kdumpctlstart (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Main PID: 2164 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)


Feb 5 14:54:58 systemd[1]: Starting Crashrecovery kernel arming...

Feb 5 14:49:49 kdumpctl[2351]: kdump: SecureBoot is enabled. Using kexec >

Feb 5 14:49:49 kdumpctl[2351]: kdump: kexec:failed to load kdump kernel

Feb 5 14:49:49 kdumpctl[2351]: kdump: Startingkdump: [FAILED]

Feb 5 14:49:49 systemd[1]: kdump.service: Mainprocess exited, code=exited>