Bug 807991

Summary:	Unexpected package definition: -readahead
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Marian Ganisin <mganisin>
Component:	lab controller	Assignee:	Qixiang Wan <qwan>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Dan Callaghan <dcallagh>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	0.8	CC:	bpeck, dcallagh, llim, mcsontos, qwan, rmancy, stl
Target Milestone:	0.12	Keywords:	Reopened
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Description Marian Ganisin 2012-03-29 09:59:40 UTC

Description of problem:

I scheduled a job for recent RHEL 6 and I have found following snippet in kickstart:


%packages --ignoremissing 
# readahead conflicts with auditd, see bug 561486 for detailed explanation.
-readahead


Bug 561486 seems to be solved for some time and this line isn't necessary anymore. Please remove.

Comment 1 Marian Csontos 2012-04-26 07:24:04 UTC

See the release notes of the bug 561486 - it is solved exactly by disabling readahead.

Comment 2 Marian Ganisin 2012-04-26 07:32:30 UTC

We have to test installation of custom package sets, therefore we need full control over packages section. I have no problem with such hacks in common beaker tasks.

However if there is custom kickstart with %packages section defined it has to stay unaltered, otherwise we can't use beaker for this kind of testing.

Comment 3 Marian Ganisin 2012-04-26 07:35:27 UTC

Additionally there doesn't seem to be any reason to modify RHEL5 kickstart based on RHEL6 bug as it happened here for example:

https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/223209

Comment 4 Nick Coghlan 2012-10-17 04:32:10 UTC

Bulk reassignment of issues as Bill has moved to another team.

Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2012-10-25 03:46:12 UTC

We could change our workaround to be to just turn off readhead, as described in bug 561486, instead of removing it. And I agree the workaround should only apply in RHEL6.

Comment 6 Qixiang Wan 2013-02-21 05:43:14 UTC

on gerrit: http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/1744/

Comment 8 Dan Callaghan 2013-04-02 00:50:57 UTC

Verified that -readahead is absent from %packages, and that the sysconfig snippet appears only on RHEL6, and that nothing bad seems to have happened.

Comment 9 Dan Callaghan 2013-04-11 04:55:47 UTC

Beaker 0.12 has been released.