Bug 2242007

Summary:	Following change to link installkernel to kernel-install kernel `make install` fails on grub systems.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton>
Component:	grubby	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	40	CC:	fmartine, nfrayer, pjones, zbyszek, zjedrzej
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Description Jeremy Linton 2023-10-03 20:16:46 UTC

grubby-8.40-72.fc40.aarch64

In a mainline kernel git tree:

root@fedora-x13s:~/linux# make install
  INSTALL /boot
grub2-mkrelpath: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.0-rc4JL_CONFIG_CHANGES+'.
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.


The machine then fails to boot because the kernel wasn't copied to /boot

Replacing the symlink change in -72 with the original grubby `installkernel` fixes the problem and now the machine can boot.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Git clone mainline kernel
2. copy /boot/config-XXX to kernel
3. make; make modules_install; make install
Actual Results:  
  INSTALL /boot
grub2-mkrelpath: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.0-rc4JL_CONFIG_CHANGES+'.
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.

Expected Results:  
  INSTALL /boot
grep: warning: stray \ before /
kdump: For kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.0-rc4JL_CONFIG_CHANGES+, crashkernel=1G-4G:256M,4G-64G:320M,64G-:576M now. Please reboot the system for the change to take effet. Note if you don't want kexec-tools to manage the crashkernel kernel parameter, please set auto_reset_crashkernel=no in /etc/kdump.conf.


Fixed by reverting to the previous grubby installkernel script.

Comment 1 Jeremy Linton 2023-10-03 20:23:16 UTC

Maybe I should change the component to systemd.. flip a coin I guess.

Comment 2 Jeremy Linton 2023-10-04 22:15:07 UTC

Oh, noticed bz#2239008 which sounds like the same thing.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-02-15 22:58:45 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 40 development cycle.
Changing version to 40.

Comment 4 Jeremy Linton 2024-06-05 14:08:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2239008 ***