Bug 590380

Summary: [PATCH] s-c-kdump crashes on live media
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Component: system-config-kdumpAssignee: Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Han Pingtian <phan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: atodorov, ovasik, phan, tsmetana
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: EasyFix, Patch
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: system-config-kdump-2.0.2.1-16.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-10 21:41:43 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Attachments:
Description Flags
Proposed fix, apply with git am none

Description Lubomir Rintel 2010-05-09 10:02:41 UTC
Created attachment 412612 [details]
Proposed fix, apply with git am

Description of problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kdump/system-config-kdump.py", line 1826, in <module>
    win = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kdump/system-config-kdump.py", line 473, in __init__
    self.default_kernel = self.default_kernel_name()[:-1]
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kdump/system-config-kdump.py", line 1422, in default_kernel_name
    default_kernel = self.dbus_object.getdefaultkernel()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kdump/system-config-kdump.py", line 206, in getdefaultkernel
    return self.dbus_object.getdefaultkernel (dbus_interface = "org.fedoraproject.systemconfig.kdump.mechanism")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.65 was not provided by any .service files

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

system-config-kdump-2.0.2-6.el6.noarch

Additional info:

Since we do not support syslinux, and we probably would not be able to overwrite its configuration (e.g. on ROM media), just provide the user with a sane error message.

See the attached patch.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-09 11:11:20 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-09 12:29:45 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 Roman Rakus 2010-05-19 18:18:28 UTC
Heh. Nice hit. Two things. 1) Why is s-c-kdump on live media? Ah, nevermind. 2) The check was missing, thanks for the patch!

Comment 5 Lubomir Rintel 2010-05-20 07:51:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> 1) Why is s-c-kdump on live media?

Duh, because I installed it there? :)

Default RHEL6 Beta 1 installation contained kdump, possibly due to a same reason, a comps group that dragged it in.

It's that useless anyway -- live images can be installed to hard driver via liveinst as they are, and hard drive installations are booted with grub, so s-c-kdump works happily there.

Comment 6 Roman Rakus 2010-05-25 16:40:44 UTC
I have applied your patch. This can be fixed in system-config-kdump-2.0.2.1-16.el6.

Comment 8 Alexander Todorov 2010-08-23 12:28:04 UTC
system-config-kdump-2.0.2.2-2.el6 in snap #12 LiveCD says:
"Don't know how to configure your bootloader".

Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 9 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 21:41:43 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.