Bug 729981

Summary: zipl requires C locale with /boot on LVM
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Dan Horák <dhorak>
Component: s390utilsAssignee: Dan Horák <dhorak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: low    
Version: 6.1CC: azelinka, brueckner, bugproxy, jmarko, jstodola, ovasik
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Fixed In Version: s390utils-1.8.2-37.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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run helper script in C locale
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Description Dan Horák 2011-08-11 13:08:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
When /boot is a logical volume and non-C (or non-english) locale is used then zipl fails with an error.

[root@devel2 ~]# zipl
Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf'
Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot/
Error: Could not determine partition start for dasda1
Error: Script could not determine target parameters


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
s390utils-1.8.2-36.el6.s390x

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. zipl
  
Actual results:
[root@devel2 ~]# zipl
Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf'
Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot/
Error: Could not determine partition start for dasda1
Error: Script could not determine target parameters

Expected results:
[root@devel2 ~]# LANG=C zipl
Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf'
Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot/
Building bootmap in '/boot/'
Building menu 'rh-automatic-menu'
Adding #1: IPL section 'linux-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.s390x' (default)
Preparing boot device: dasda.
Done.
Comment 1 Dan Horák 2011-08-11 15:07:54 UTC 
Created attachment 517826 [details]
run helper script in C locale
Comment 2 Dan Horák 2011-08-11 15:18:17 UTC 
My locale is "cs_CZ.UTF-8" and the tool with translated output is blockdev.
Comment 4 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-08-19 10:40:28 UTC 
Created attachment 519007 [details]
s390-tools-rhel6-zipl_helper_locale.patch


------- Comment on attachment From brueckner.ibm.com 2011-08-19 06:31 EDT-------


Description: zipl: localized scripting output leads to errors
Symptom:     zipl is terminated with an error:
	     "Script could not determine target parameters"
Problem:     zipl uses zipl_helper.device-mapper to print zipl parameters 
	     for device mapper devices. This script parses the output
	     of other programs that might have a locale dependent
	     output. If so, the script is unable to parse the output.
Solution:    Setup and use a standard locale to avoid localized
	     scripting output.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 17:45:26 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1525.html