Bug 461823
| Summary: | anaconda installs the xen kernel based on busted logic | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | borgan, ddumas, srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | beta | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-09-11 13:56:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Jay, this change is pretty new I think: * 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 (from 0905.nightly tree) does not have /proc/xen * 2.6.18-108.el5 (from 0910.nightly tree) does have /proc/xen Regards, Brock This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. This is due to /proc/xen being present in bare metal due to XenPV drivers. It is being fixed via 461532. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461532 *** |
Description of problem: I don't know how far this goes back, but apparently in support of PV drivers, the latest kernels (even non-xen) present a /proc/xen interface. There's logic in anaconda which sees this and takes the existence of that interface as proof of running on a guest. Net result is the -xen kernel gets installed when it shouldn't. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11.1.2.120-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run an install 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: text.py: if os.path.exists("/proc/xen"): # this keys us that we're a xen guest yuminstall.py: if not foundkernel and os.path.exists("/proc/xen"): Looks like the check in iutil.py was updated already.