Bug 2058756

Summary:	kernel_settings error configobj not found on RHEL 8.6 managed hosts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Component:	rhel-system-roles	Assignee:	Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jakub Haruda <jharuda>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Eliane Ramos Pereira <elpereir>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.0	CC:	djez, elpereir, jharuda, nhosoi, pkettman, pvlasin, spetrosi
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release:	9.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	role:kernel_settings
Fixed In Version:	rhel-system-roles-1.15.1-1.el9	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	.The `kernel_settings` `configobj` is available on managed hosts Previously, the `kernel_settings` role did not install the `python3-configobj` package on managed hosts. As a consequence, the role returned an error stating that the `configobj` Python module could not be found. With this fix, the role ensures that the `python3-configobj` package is present on managed hosts and the `kernel_settings` role works as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	2058772 2060525 2060782 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-05-17 13:03:41 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	2058772, 2060525, 2060782

Description Rich Megginson 2022-02-25 18:44:38 UTC

Description of problem:
The kernel_settings role will issue an error like 'configobj not found' on RHEL 8.6 managed hosts.  This only happens if the package `python3-configobj` is not already present on the host.
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How reproducible:
If the managed host is from a VM image which uses cloud-init, then python3-configobj is pulled in as a dependency.  So in order to reproduce, you must use on a managed host not using cloud-init, or otherwise having python3-configobj installed, or you must remove cloud-init and any leaf dependencies installed by cloud-init.  Also note that `yum erase cloud-init` or `yum remove cloud-init` DOES NOT remove these leaf dependencies, because something about the dependencies are installed at machine provisioning time.  So if you want to reproduce by removing cloud-init and dependencies, you have to manually find and remove them.

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Comment 1 Rich Megginson 2022-02-25 18:48:24 UTC

Note: This is due to a recent change in tuned in rhel 8.6 - they switched from using configobj to configparser.  kernel_settings did not have an explicit dependency on configobj.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 13:03:41 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 (new packages: rhel-system-roles), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2443