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Bug 875644

Summary: Kickstart upgrade doesn't reboot to upgraded system
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Samantha N. Bueno <sbueno>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.4CC: pbokoc, tlavigne
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: s390x   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.21.210-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: Anaconda could not set the boot device since it was not set properly. Consequence: Manual reboot of the system was required upon completion of an upgrade. Fix: Proper support for bootloader upgrades was implemented for s390x. Result: Manual and kickstart upgrades on s390x will detect the correct boot device and reboot the system after upgrading.
 Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-11-21 09:55:10 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:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 841211, 960065    
Attachments:
Description Flags
anaconda.program.log
none
anaconda.storage.log
none
anaconda.yum.log
none
upgrade.log.syslog none

Description Jan Stodola 2012-11-12 09:35:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
When kickstart upgrade is performed on s390x, anaconda shuts down the system instead of rebooting although "reboot" command is present in kickstart.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-13.21.183-1.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install previous version of RHEL. Following partitioning was used:
bootloader --location=mbr
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --asprimary --size=500 --label=boot
part swap --fstype=swap --recommended --label=swap
part / --grow --size=2048

2. prepare kickstart for upgrade - make sure that "reboot" command is present:
upgrade
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
reboot
cmdline
bootloader --upgrade

3. run kickstart upgrade
  
Actual results:
system is halted after upgrade

Expected results:
system is rebooted after upgrade

Additional info:
When running manual upgrade, anaconda successfully reboots at the end of the upgrade. I'm able to reproduce only on s390x, x86_64 works as expected.
Comment 5 Samantha N. Bueno 2012-12-20 20:29:41 UTC 
Pushing this off to RHEL6.5 planning since it's not a 6.4 blocker.
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2013-05-06 21:16:16 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.
Comment 12 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-08-07 13:48:52 UTC 
Patch posted for review.
Comment 13 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-08-07 21:14:20 UTC 
Patch pushed, commit 530820d10f2d4d47095ff33cd01bc85ae835f3e7 in rhel6-branch.
Comment 15 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:29:33 UTC 
Retested with anaconda-13.21.204-1.el6, but reboot is still not happening - system shuts down after upgrade. 

From anaconda.log:
...
11:27:33,817 INFO    : Unable to set reIPL device to None: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
11:27:33,821 INFO    : reIPL configuration failed => halt
11:27:33,823 INFO    : leaving (1) step reipl

Logs from the upgrade will be attached. Moving to ASSIGNED.
Comment 16 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:19 UTC 
Created attachment 795580 [details]
anaconda.log
Comment 17 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:25 UTC 
Created attachment 795581 [details]
anaconda.program.log
Comment 18 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:30 UTC 
Created attachment 795582 [details]
anaconda.storage.log
Comment 19 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:34 UTC 
Created attachment 795583 [details]
anaconda.syslog
Comment 20 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:39 UTC 
Created attachment 795584 [details]
anaconda.yum.log
Comment 21 Jan Stodola 2013-09-09 11:32:43 UTC 
Created attachment 795585 [details]
upgrade.log.syslog
Comment 23 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-10-04 14:06:56 UTC 
Patch posted for review.
Comment 24 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-10-07 13:47:13 UTC 
Patch pushed, commit 5b136c01148b8d78fa4d779d05704cef9f582813.
Comment 26 Jan Stodola 2013-10-10 11:24:59 UTC 
Anaconda upgrade using kickstart rebooted at the end of the upgrade, system booted correctly. Retested with anaconda-13.21.211-1.el6, compose RHEL6.5-20131009.0.

Moving to VERIFIED.
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 09:55:10 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-2013-1588.html