Bug 1055322

Summary: anaconda isn't generating an initramfs for all installed kernels
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora, znmeb
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Last Closed: 2014-03-17 20:25:49 UTC Type: Bug
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screenshot of console log showing missing initramfs
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screenshot of main Anaconda screen after completing install
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screenshot of Ctl-Alt-F3 log
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screenshot of Ctl-Alt-F5 log
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zip archive of /mnt/sysimage/var/log/anaconda after an install but before rebooting
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output of 'ls -l /mnt/sysimage/boot' after install before reboot none

Description M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 01:09:53 UTC 
Created attachment 852580 [details]
screenshot of console log showing missing initramfs

Description of problem: After an install, I get a kernel panic trying to boot up the system. It turns out an initramfs file is missing from /boot


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-20.25.15-1.fc20.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate a Fedora remix ISO file using https://github.com/znmeb/CompJournoStick/blob/master/2MakeLiveISOImage/1SudoMakeISOImage.bash
2. Create a virtual machine using Virtual Machine Manager and connect the ISO file to it.
3. Install the remix to the virtual machine.

Actual results:
The install appears to work - I get to the 'Quit' prompt and I can reboot the machine. When it comes back up, the Grub menu shows three options: normal, debug and rescue. Rescue and debug boot up fine, but the normal one crashes instantly with a kernel panic.

I did some digging and it turns out /boot has an initramfs for the rescue and debug kernels, but *not* one for the normal one!


Expected results:
I expected the normal kernel to boot.

Additional info:
See attached screenshots - I don't know how to get log files from Anaconda.
Comment 1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 01:11:03 UTC 
Created attachment 852581 [details]
screenshot of main Anaconda screen after completing install
Comment 2 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 01:11:40 UTC 
Created attachment 852582 [details]
screenshot of Ctl-Alt-F3 log
Comment 3 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 01:12:19 UTC 
Created attachment 852583 [details]
screenshot of Ctl-Alt-F5 log
Comment 4 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 01:18:11 UTC 
Comment on attachment 852580 [details]
screenshot of console log showing missing initramfs

there should be a file /boot/initramfs-3.12.7-300.fc20.x86_64.img
Comment 5 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-20 05:39:00 UTC 
Note: see Bug 1046246 for why there's both a regular and a debug kernel on the install media and the resulting installed virtual machine.
Comment 6 David Shea 2014-01-21 15:58:03 UTC 
Screenshots of log files are not as helpful as log files. Please attach the log files from the installation (in /tmp during the install, saved to /var/log/anaconda in the installed system) to this bug as text/plain attachments.
Comment 7 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-21 20:24:39 UTC 
Created attachment 853435 [details]
zip archive of /mnt/sysimage/var/log/anaconda after an install but before rebooting
Comment 8 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-21 20:29:06 UTC 
Created attachment 853436 [details]
output of 'ls -l /mnt/sysimage/boot' after install before reboot
Comment 9 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2014-01-21 23:02:45 UTC 
This could also be some fallout from bug 1054350, which wreaked a lot of havoc on my machine over the weekend. If you want, I can do a 'yum list installed' and see what versions of everything landed on the ISO.
Comment 10 David Shea 2014-03-17 20:25:49 UTC 
This was inadvertently fixed in rawhide. In pyanaconda/bootloader.py, writeBootLoader pops the first kernel entry off kernel_versions to use as the default bootloader. In F20, this variable was set with

kernel_versions = payload.kernelVersionList

so kernel_versions.pop was modifying the copy kept in the payload object. In rawhide, it's now set with

kernel_versions = payload.kernelVersionList + payload.rescueKernelList

so it's a new list and modifications don't affect the list used by Payload.recreateInitrds. The property is supposed to be read-only anyway so I'll fix that part of anaconda so that it really is.