Bug 253364
| Summary: | non unique UUID in Smolt | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Arnaud Siminski <asiminski> |
| Component: | smolt | Assignee: | Mike McGrath <mmcgrath> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7 | CC: | jeff, triage, whanlon |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-06-17 02:11:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Arnaud Siminski
2007-08-18 10:41:55 UTC
We've heard of collisions in the past. I'm wondering if the uuid generation phase is not as random as we'd hopped. The easiest fix for now is to run the following command as root: cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > /etc/sysconfig/hw-uuid which will generate a new UUID for you. Interesting, upon closer inspection there is a number of UUID's (around 5 that I see right now) that, for whatever reason, don't appear to be randomly generated. In fact I estimate there's around 2,000 people with that UUID listed in the db right now. I'll have to think about this a bit. possibly generating a random password for the UUID. Anyone requesting any changes or updates to the UUID will have to send the password as well. If you're submitting new (or updating) and there's a collision, then it will generate a new UUID. I'm not sure. One thing I do know, /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid is not as random as it should be. Ok, this issue has been discovered and I'd like you guys to verify. I believe this is an issue of the live CD installs all ending up with the same UUID. Can those having this issue verify one way or the other that they installed via a live image? I had this problem and I installed my machine using a F7 live CD. I've since upgraded it to F8 (via yum), so I guess that would not change the uuid. I've used your suggestion from comment #1 to generate a new uuid. I have another computer at home that I also used the F7 live CD to install. I'll check later tonight to see if it also has the same problem. I did install using a F7 live CD. I have upgrade to F8 now using yum... This message is a reminder that Fedora 7 is nearing the end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 7. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '7'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 7's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 7 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. If possible, it is recommended that you try the newest available Fedora distribution to see if your bug still exists. Please read the Release Notes for the newest Fedora distribution to make sure it will meet your needs: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping I've been having this problem too with Fedora 8 KDE live CD. I therefore request that the product version be increased from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ddc9f5fc-7111-4440-998e-44945e7d5266 appears to be used by at least one other person. I followed Mike McGraths advice https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253364#c1 and got a new UUID - how do I check if this is unique? I updated the fields but I noticed that my changes are NOT displayed when I visit http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_97175f49-87f6-40f4-bf70-98cee3851809 They only show up on http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_97175f49-87f6-40f4-bf70-98cee3851809 Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |