Bug 1274066

Summary:	0008761: Dracut - "cat: write error: Broken pipe" only in rescue mode
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Brian O'Regan <briano>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	briano, dracut-maint-list, harald, jstodola, mbanas
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-02-23 13:57:59 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Brian O'Regan 2015-10-21 19:55:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Dracut drop error "cat: write error: Broken pipe" when i try to generate ramfs 
In normal mode there is no errors.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
mount --bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sysimage/sys
chroot /mnt/sysimage
dracut -fv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r) $(uname-r)

Comment 2 Jan Stodola 2016-01-25 17:03:00 UTC

I was able to reproduce with RHEL-7.1 (dracut-033-240.el7), but not with RHEL-7.2 (dracut-033-359.el7).

Brian, could you please retest if the issue is still present in RHEL-7.2?
Thank you

Comment 3 Brian O'Regan 2016-02-23 13:16:42 UTC

Tested on 7.2 and it's working perfectly.

Thanks Jan

Comment 4 Jan Stodola 2016-02-23 13:57:59 UTC

Thanks for retesting.

Closing the bug per comment 3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1223888 ***