Bug 2043538
| Summary: | yum needs_restarting reports wrong result after some time sfter update of critical packages | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Dmitry <dovechkin> |
| Component: | dnf-plugins-core | Assignee: | Nicola Sella <nsella> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | swm-qe |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.3 | CC: | james.antill, nsella |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2022-03-15 14:32:12 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
A patch to mitigate the issue was released on z-stream for 8.5 and y-stream https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022389 May I ask for more information on the system? Also, what version of dnf and plugins are you running? # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa) # rpm -qa | grep dnf dnf-data-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21-3.el8.noarch python3-libdnf-0.63.0-3.el8.x86_64 python3-dnf-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch python3-dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21-3.el8.noarch libdnf-0.63.0-3.el8.x86_64 dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.27.18-1.el8_3.x86_64 dnf-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch Thank you for being specific on the versions. From what I see, there is some mismatch between your RHEL version and dnf/dnf-plugins-core version. dnf-4.7.0 and dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21 were released on 8.5, and I see that you have 8.3. Did you update redhat-release package? From which repository did you download dnf System is updated from standard redhat repository, but only security updates are installed. For that reason redhat-release package is not updated. |
Description of problem: yum needs-restaring -r returns 1 immediately and for some time after installation of critical packages, but after some time starts return 0 Reason is: Script /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/needs_restarting.py compares package installtime with os boottime, and boottime assumed as: def get_boot_time(): return int(os.stat('/proc/1/cmdline').st_mtime) but timestamp of st_mtime, seems updates from time to time. For example on host, affected by problem: # stat /proc/1/cmdline File: /proc/1/cmdline Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 regular empty file Device: 5h/5d Inode: 40351045 Links: 1 Access: (0444/-r--r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Context: system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 Access: 2022-01-21 14:22:43.161122475 +0300 Modify: 2022-01-21 14:22:43.161122475 +0300 Change: 2022-01-21 14:22:43.161122475 +0300 Birth: - # uptime 16:29:39 up 127 days, 5:10, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.06