kexec-tools: issue warning when dd'ing vmcore

With no warning, it just looks like the box has hung during boot.

We don't want users resetting it without having captured a crashdump.

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>

diff --git a/package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile b/package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile
index 1c686a254008162f8fc889542ddc3d7adb984f8d..71a10b22f95f97249b28b8d9e9c47b8689867e4d 100644 (file)
--- a/package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile
+++ b/package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=kexec-tools
 PKG_VERSION:=2.0.14
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@KERNEL/linux/utils/kernel/kexec

diff --git a/package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init b/package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init
index 057b8cc17a240ad5abbc34a21d70c33bf7d63534..6a6a94c07e330c4905b9e4a63387b9129a514c46 100755 (executable)
--- a/package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init
+++ b/package/boot/kexec-tools/files/kdump.init
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ run_kdump() {
        timestamp=$(date "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")
 
        if [ "$save_vmcore" -eq 1 ]; then
+               echo -n "Saving vmcore (this may take a while)..."
                # would like 'sparse' but busybox doesn't support it
                dd if=/proc/vmcore of="$path/vmcore-$timestamp" conv=fsync bs=1M
+               echo " done"
        fi
 
        if [ "$save_dmesg" -eq 1 ]; then