Comment # 32 on bug 947816 from Mike Galbraith

> > (/me builds factory kdump for leap-42.1)
> > 
> > homer:/root # rpm -q kdump
> > kdump-0.8.15-99.x86_64
... 
> And with this kdump version, kdump/crash works fine through 4.6 kernels,
> SLE, SLERT or homebrew.  After that, makedumpfile ceases to function, and
> taking makedumpfile from factory helps not at all.. but at least things work
> properly until 4.7.

For the record, the reason I continued to have trouble dumping kernels > 4.6
was that I forgot to whack the existing kdump initrd after installing
makedumpfile, so it would be rebuilt (install order matters).

I took kexec-tools and crash as well on general principal, and put the lot into
a local directory repository, and am green across the board.. at least until
the merge window opens in a couple days ;-)