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Bug 1947157 - disk image creation fails when excluding kernel-lpae on 32-bit arm
Summary: disk image creation fails when excluding kernel-lpae on 32-bit arm
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 34
Hardware: arm
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vendula Poncova
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
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Blocks: ARMTracker F34FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-07 19:37 UTC by Paul Whalen
Modified: 2021-04-14 19:36 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-34.24.9-1 anaconda-34.24.9-1.fc34
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Last Closed: 2021-04-14 19:36:43 UTC
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Description Paul Whalen 2021-04-07 19:37:15 UTC 
Description of problem:

The 32-bit arm disk images include both kernel and kernel-lpae. Kernel-lpae is usually installed last and the dtb symlink created points to the lpae dtb folder which does not contain all dtb files. This causes a boot failure on some devices. 

We have attempted to exclude kernel-lpae from the installation by adding "-kernel-lpae*" to the package section but this caused all the images to fail waiting for input:

Question                                                                                                                                                                                   

         Problems in request:
         missing packages: kernel-lpae                                       
         Would you like to ignore this and continue with installation?
 
Please respond 'yes' or 'no':

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-34.24.8-1.fc34.armv7hl

Expected results:

kernel-lpae should not be required for the installation.

Disk image failure in F34:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=65387595
Comment 1 Paul Whalen 2021-04-07 19:57:58 UTC 
Proposing as a blocker for F34, this prevents us from creating a release blocking image (Minimal armhfp).
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2021-04-07 21:05:26 UTC 
Note the code in anaconda that requires kernel-lpae to be in the package set if available was added in 2013 in response to this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013015
commit is https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/ffe01087ce10c80c991776c92f30c669c5a50e01 (the logic has been moved/tweaked since but the basic idea is the same).
Comment 3 Vendula Poncova 2021-04-08 10:06:22 UTC 
Hi, I am not sure how to fix the issue in the context of the bug 1013015.

1. Is the current behaviour a regression?
2. Should we drop the support for the kernel-lpae package?
3. Should we extend the condition for the installation of the kernel-lpae package?
4. Should we allow to exclude the package kernel-lpae from the installation in a kickstart file?
Comment 4 Paul Whalen 2021-04-08 15:29:34 UTC 
I think perhaps #3, extending the logic to prefer lpae if available but not require it. This would allow us to exclude it in the kickstart(#4) to make disk images that will boot on all hardware.
Comment 5 Vendula Poncova 2021-04-08 17:03:38 UTC 
Fixed in a pull request: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3284
Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2021-04-08 22:03:58 UTC 
+3 in https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/336 , marking accepted.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-04-12 13:11:09 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d has been submitted as an update to Fedora 34. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d
Comment 8 Vendula Poncova 2021-04-12 13:27:03 UTC 
Just a note, it is necessary to use -kernel-lpae in the %packages section. The -kernel-lpae* option will not work.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2021-04-12 15:10:26 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d has been pushed to the Fedora 34 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 10 Paul Whalen 2021-04-12 20:25:09 UTC 
(In reply to Vendula Poncova from comment #8)
> Just a note, it is necessary to use -kernel-lpae in the %packages section.
> The -kernel-lpae* option will not work.

Thanks Vendula. 

PR for the kickstart change - https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/pull-request/802
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2021-04-14 19:36:43 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-394fedac1d has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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