Comment # 6 on bug 1226676 from Jiri Bohac

(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #3)
> AFAICS /etc/sysconfig/kdump is generated with some fillup-template. In this
> case, obviously this does not work.

"obviously" meaning you understand why? Or you just see it didn't? :)
Because I don't understand why it does not work.

> So the first thing to do would be to
> ensure that there is ALWAYS an /etc/sysconfig/kdump if the kdump package
> needs it so desperately.

It doesn't need it. If it does not exist, it still works, using default values.
The error message "/usr/lib/kdump/kdump-read-config.sh: line 144:
/etc/sysconfig/kdump: No such file or directory" is misleading and I just fixed
it:
https://github.com/openSUSE/kdump/commit/0d1cd2c6b21f875d6ad9c6a97df20ff946578455

The real problem is the other error message: "Kernel not found."
By deafult kdump expects a /boot/vmlinuz symlink to exist, seems to not be the
case here... investigating why.