Bug 852389

Summary:	dracut-install: ERROR: failed to create directory [...]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	dracut-maint, harald, jonathan
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-09-12 07:59:26 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-28 11:10:39 UTC

Description of problem:

Installing a new kernel always gives errors (warnings?) like this:

Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64                        1/1 
dracut-install: ERROR: failed to create directory '/var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE/usr/lib64/plymouth/'
dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/usr/lib64/plymouth//text.so'
E: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE /usr/lib64/plymouth//text.so /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE
dracut-install: ERROR: failed to create directory '/var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE/etc/plymouth/'
dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/plymouth//plymouthd.conf'
E: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE /etc/plymouth//plymouthd.conf /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE
  Verifying  : kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64                        1/1 

Installed:
  kernel.x86_64 0:3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18                                       

Complete!

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

dracut-023-2.fc18.x86_64
plymouth-0.8.5.1-3.fc18.x86_64
Various kernels including
kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:

100% (tried it twice)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a kernel using yum.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

Errors shown above.

Expected results:

No errors.

Additional info:

I haven't tried booting this kernel.  The initramfs appears
normal sized:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19598183 Aug 28 12:06 initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2012-09-06 08:39:13 UTC

$ rpm -q dracut plymouth
dracut-023-21.git20120823.fc18.x86_64
plymouth-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64

Does it work with these recent ones?

Test:

# dracut -v --force

If you still experience those error messages, can you please attach the stderr output dracut-debug.log of:

# dracut --debug --force 2> dracut-debug.log

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-09-12 07:59:26 UTC

I have a different version of plymouth ...

dracut-023-21.git20120823.fc18.x86_64
plymouth-0.8.6.2-0.2012.07.23.fc18.x86_64

Anyway with the new version of dracut the error message
seems to have gone (I didn't try updating the kernel
however).

$ sudo dracut -v --force
I: *** Including module: i18n ***
I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
I: *** Including module: btrfs ***
I: *** Including module: crypt ***
I: *** Including module: dm ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
I: *** Including module: dmraid ***
I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
I: Omitting driver nfs_acl
I: Omitting driver nfs
I: Omitting driver nfsv2
I: Omitting driver nfsv3
I: Omitting driver nfsv4
I: Omitting driver nfs_layout_nfsv41_files
I: Omitting driver objlayoutdriver
I: Omitting driver blocklayoutdriver
I: Omitting driver nfsd
I: Omitting driver lockd
I: *** Including module: lvm ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
I: *** Including module: mdraid ***
I: *** Including module: multipath ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 40-multipath.rules
I: Skipping program $env{MPATH_SBIN_PATH}/multipath using in udev rule 62-multipath.rules as it cannot be found
I: *** Including module: resume ***
I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
I: *** Including module: virtfs ***
I: *** Including module: biosdevname ***
I: *** Including module: systemd ***
I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
I: *** Including module: base ***
I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
I: *** Including modules done ***
I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
I: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
I: *** Resolving executable dependencies done***
I: *** hardlinking files ***
I: *** hardlinking files done ***
I: *** Creating image file ***
I: *** Creating image file done ***
I: Wrote /boot/initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img:
I: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19511643 Sep 12 08:58 /boot/initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img