Bug 1881592

Summary:	SystemTap onboot scripts does not work
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Grzegorz Halat <ghalat>
Component:	systemtap	Assignee:	Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
systemtap sub component:	system-version	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	Docs Contact:
Severity:	medium
Priority:	high	CC:	lberk, mcermak, mjw
Version:	8.1
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Grzegorz Halat 2020-09-22 18:12:19 UTC

Description of problem:
onboot SystemTap scripts does not work on RHEL8.
This used to work on RHEL7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemtap-4.2-6.el8.x86_64
systemtap-devel-4.2-6.el8.x86_64
systemtap-client-4.2-6.el8.x86_64
systemtap-runtime-4.2-6.el8.x86_64
systemtap-initscript-4.2-6.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install SystemTap and systemtap-initscript
2. Try to enable a script on boot, for example:

# cp panic_at_bad_page.stp /etc/systemtap/script.d/

# systemtap-service onboot panic_at_bad_page
Could not find /sbin/new-kernel-pkg                        [FAILED]
This feature requires /sbin/new-kernel-pkg.
If it is located elsewhere, modify the $NEWKERNELPKG parameter

Actual results:
It fails due to missing /sbin/new-kernel-pkg on RHEL8.
I have not found any RPM that provides this file.

Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2020-09-22 18:25:16 UTC

Yup, thanks, it was broken by rhel8 baseos changes in the boot ramdisk building system, plus the more thorough systemd/initscripts changes, and we haven't adapted systemtap to it all yet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1650594 ***