Hi *, starting with kernel 5.x on my Tumbleweed machines kdump can't be loaded any longer with "kexec_load failed: Permission denied". Excerpt from my journal: ------------------------< snip snip snip >----------------------------- load.sh[1742]: kexec_file_load failed: Permission denied kernel: ima: impossible to appraise a kernel image without a file descriptor; try using kexec_file_load syscall. load.sh[1742]: kexec_load failed: Permission denied load.sh[1742]: entry = 0x4ade9c730 flags = 0x3e0001 load.sh[1742]: nr_segments = 8 load.sh[1742]: segment[0].buf = 0x1e207e0 load.sh[1742]: segment[0].bufsz = 0x70 load.sh[1742]: segment[0].mem = 0x4a2000000 load.sh[1742]: segment[0].memsz = 0x1000 load.sh[1742]: segment[1].buf = 0x1e28820 load.sh[1742]: segment[1].bufsz = 0x168 load.sh[1742]: segment[1].mem = 0x4a2001000 load.sh[1742]: segment[1].memsz = 0x1000 load.sh[1742]: segment[2].buf = 0x7f22cc853010 load.sh[1742]: segment[2].bufsz = 0x1252c74 load.sh[1742]: segment[2].mem = 0x4aadad000 load.sh[1742]: segment[2].memsz = 0x1253000 load.sh[1742]: segment[3].buf = 0x7f22cdaaa410 load.sh[1742]: segment[3].bufsz = 0x7cdae0 load.sh[1742]: segment[3].mem = 0x4ac000000 load.sh[1742]: segment[3].memsz = 0x1e4d000 load.sh[1742]: segment[4].buf = 0x1e1a420 load.sh[1742]: segment[4].bufsz = 0x457c load.sh[1742]: segment[4].mem = 0x4ade97000 load.sh[1742]: segment[4].memsz = 0x5000 load.sh[1742]: segment[5].buf = 0x1e13070 load.sh[1742]: segment[5].bufsz = 0x70e0 load.sh[1742]: segment[5].mem = 0x4ade9c000 load.sh[1742]: segment[5].memsz = 0x9000 load.sh[1742]: segment[6].buf = 0x1e11f80 load.sh[1742]: segment[6].bufsz = 0xc00 load.sh[1742]: segment[6].mem = 0x4adea5000 load.sh[1742]: segment[6].memsz = 0x4000 load.sh[1742]: segment[7].buf = 0x7f22cc7fb010 load.sh[1742]: segment[7].bufsz = 0x57000 load.sh[1742]: segment[7].mem = 0x4adea9000 load.sh[1742]: segment[7].memsz = 0x57000 kdump[24916]: FAILED to load kdump kernel: /sbin/kexec -p /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.2-1-default --append="quiet no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 systemd.log_target=kmsg log_buf_len=1M printk.devkmsg=on elevator=deadline sysrq=yes reset_devices acpi_no_memhotplug cgroup_disable=memory nokaslr numa=off irqpoll nr_cpus=1 root=kdump rootflags=bind rd.udev.children-max=8 disable_cpu_apicid=0 panic=1" --initrd=/boot/initrd-5.0.2-1-default-kdump , Result: kexec_load failed: Permission denied entry = 0x4ade9c730 flags = 0x3e0001 nr_segments = 8 segment[0].buf = 0x1e207e0 segment[0].bufsz = 0x70 segment[0].mem = 0x4a2000000 segment[0].memsz = 0x1000 segment[1].buf = 0x1e28820 segment[1].bufsz = 0x168 segment[1].mem = 0x4a2001000 segment[1].memsz = 0x1000 segment[2].buf = 0x7f22cc853010 segment[2].bufsz = 0x1252c74 segment[2].mem = 0x4aadad000 segment[2].memsz = 0x1253000 segment[3].buf = 0x7f22cdaaa410 segment[3].bufsz = 0x7cdae0 segment[3].mem = 0x4ac000000 segment[3].memsz = 0x1e4d000 segment[4].buf = 0x1e1a420 systemd[1]: kdump.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION systemd[1]: kdump.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. systemd[1]: Failed to start Load kdump kernel and initrd. ------------------------< snip snip snip >----------------------------- Any idea what to do to get kdump back? TIA. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org