Bug 1121362

Summary:	dracut doesn't return error rc if given --add / --force-add modules fail
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	dracut-maint-list, harald, jbastian, jstodola, mbanas
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Doc Text:	Cause: dracut does not return with an error code, if some required components given could not be found. Consequence: Other than reading the log of dracut, there was no way to figure out, that some required components were not installed in the initramfs. Fix: dracut returns with an error code now, if dracut modules, which were specified to be added in the initramfs, were not actually installed. Result: The process of initramfs now fails and it can be reacted upon it immediately.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-03-05 08:21:09 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1170368

Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2014-07-19 20:29:50 UTC

Some tools invoke dracut, with a few extra module activation parameters,
expecting that if dracut returned rc=0, all is well.  But not so:

# /sbin/dracut --force-add FOOBAR --force /boot/soijsdf `uname -r`
dracut module 'FOOBAR' cannot be found or installed.
dracut module 'FOOBAR' cannot be found or installed.
# echo $?
0
# rpm -q dracut
dracut-033-161.el7.x86_64

(Same for "--add".)

This means that that the invoking tool has no way of knowing that
the dracut rebuild actually failed.

Comment 10 Jan Stodola 2015-01-06 12:27:42 UTC

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q dracut
dracut-033-227.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/dracut --force-add FOOBAR --force /boot/soijsdf `uname -r`
dracut module 'FOOBAR' cannot be found or installed.
[root@localhost ~]# echo $?
1
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/dracut --add FOOBAR --force /boot/soijsdf `uname -r`
dracut module 'FOOBAR' cannot be found or installed.
[root@localhost ~]# echo $?
1
[root@localhost ~]#

Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 08:21:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0375.html