Bug 502624

Summary:	mkinitrd can't access /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled and prints errors
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
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Version:	5.4	CC:	ddumas
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Description Alexander Todorov 2009-05-26 14:41:16 UTC

Description of problem:
On a 5.2 system with latest mkinitrd from 5.4 I was trying to rebuild the initrd image to verify bug #479270.

# rpm -q mkinitrd
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-52

# uname -a
Linux dell-pe650-02.rhts.bos.redhat.com 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29
13:16:12 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

# mkinitrd test-$(uname -r) $(uname -r)
cat: /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled: No such file or directory
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1171: [: : integer expression expected
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1663: [: : integer expression expected
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1748: [: : integer expression expected


# echo $?
0

The initrd image is created but notice the errors.

Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2009-05-26 14:41:44 UTC

pjones: http://fpaste.org/paste/12998
pjones: should fix it.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-05-26 19:10:08 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Peter Jones 2009-05-26 19:24:11 UTC

Fixed in mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-53 .

Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2009-05-27 08:14:09 UTC

# ls -l /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled
ls: /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled: No such file or directory
# rpm -q mkinitrd
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-53
# uname -a
Linux athlon5 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:12 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
# mkinitrd test-$(uname -r) $(uname -r)
# echo $?
0
# ls -l test-2.6.18-92.el5 
-rw------- 1 root root 3118733 May 27 04:09 test-2.6.18-92.el5

initrd image is created and no error for /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled. Tested on i386 and ia64. Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:15:24 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1345.html