Comment 67 for bug 1778844

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-05-21 08:26 EDT-------
Installed latest initramfs-tools & kdump-tools packages from -proposed kernel as below

root@woo:~# dpkg -l initramfs*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================================-=====================-=====================-=======================================================================
ii initramfs-tools 0.130ubuntu3.8 all generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
ii initramfs-tools-bin 0.130ubuntu3.8 ppc64el binaries used by initramfs-tools
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.130ubuntu3.8 all generic modular initramfs generator (core tools)

root@woo:~# dpkg -l kdump-tools*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================================-=====================-=====================-=======================================================================
ii kdump-tools 1:1.6.5-1ubuntu1~18.0 ppc64el scripts and tools for automating kdump (Linux crash dumps)

Triggered crash with nvme disk as root disk ,crash triggered properly and dump file saved in /var/crash path

root@woo:~# uname -a
Linux woo 4.15.0-51-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 14:26:12 UTC 2019 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

crash logs:
***********
root@woo:~# cd /var/crash
root@woo:/var/crash# ls -l
total 580K
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4.0K May 21 07:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K May 18 12:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 20 13:12 201905201311/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 21 07:41 201905210740/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228 May 21 07:51 kexec_cmd
-rw-r----- 1 root root 31K May 20 13:16 linux-image-4.15.0-51-generic-201905201311.crash
-rw-r----- 1 root root 177K May 21 07:51 linux-image-4.15.0-51-generic-201905210740.crash
-rw------- 1 root root 348K May 18 13:11 ssl-cert.0.crash

root@woo:/var/crash/201905210740# ls
total 538M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 21 07:41 ./
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4.0K May 21 07:51 ../
-rw------- 1 root root 994K May 21 07:41 dmesg.201905210740
-rw------- 1 root root 537M May 21 07:41 dump.201905210740
root@woo:/var/crash/201905210740# pwd
/var/crash/201905210740
root@woo:/var/crash/201905210740#

Issue is fixed with latest initramfs-tools package.

Regards,
Indira