Bug 2081474

Summary: mokutil does not show help when executed in an unsupported system
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Oliver Gutiérrez <ogutierr>
Component: mokutilAssignee: Bootloader engineering team <bootloader-eng-team>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: Oliver Gutiérrez <ogutierr>
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Version: 9.1CC: efuller, raravind
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Last Closed: 2023-09-16 13:28:04 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Oliver Gutiérrez 2022-05-03 20:22:51 UTC
This is a clone of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081467 for RHEL 9.0


Description of problem:

mokutil just exits with an error message when you exeute it in a system without EFI vars support, instead of showing the help

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mokutil-0.4.0-9.el9

How reproducible:

Execute mokutil in a system without UEFI or EFI vars support


Actual results:

Error shown:

[root@hp-z230-02 ~]# mokutil --help
EFI variables are not supported on this system


Expected results:

Show the command help

Comment 1 Robbie Harwood 2022-05-03 20:35:31 UTC
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Comment 7 raravind 2022-12-15 15:53:56 UTC
Due to other high-priority work and deadlines,we were not able to fix this issue at this time.

Comment 9 raravind 2022-12-23 10:52:13 UTC
Reopening this ad will try to fix it on future releases.

Comment 14 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-16 13:24:04 UTC
Issue migration from Bugzilla to Jira is in process at this time. This will be the last message in Jira copied from the Bugzilla bug.

Comment 15 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-16 13:28:04 UTC
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