Bug 1029681 - EFI boot order snippet breaks Xen guest recipes on ia64/HVM
Summary: EFI boot order snippet breaks Xen guest recipes on ia64/HVM
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: scheduler
Version: 0.14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 0.14.4
Assignee: Dan Callaghan
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-12 22:13 UTC by Bill Peck
Modified: 2018-02-06 00:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-19 05:09:13 UTC
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Description Bill Peck 2013-11-12 22:13:16 UTC 
Description of problem:

Running efibootmgr on a RHEL5 ia64/HVM guest will fail, and that appears to cause anaconda to crash.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.14.2

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. submit a job with rhel5 ia64/HVM recipe.
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Actual results:
+ /usr/sbin/efibootmgr -o FFFF,0000

boot entry FFFF does not exist

(and no more %post is executed)
Comment 3 Dan Callaghan 2013-11-13 00:02:24 UTC 
Actually it looks like it causes the Xen domain to crash completely:

[2013-11-12 18:19:10 xend.XendDomainInfo 3107] WARNING (XendDomainInfo:1262) Domain has crashed: name=ia64_xen_hvm id=1.

but my Xen skills are pretty weak so I have not yet figured out anything more than that.
Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2013-11-20 23:20:03 UTC 
We can easily enough skip the efibootmgr snippet for guest recipes, which should work around this problem.
Comment 6 Nick Coghlan 2013-11-21 01:17:11 UTC 
Retitled and added to 0.14.4 - +1 for just skipping the snippet in guest recipes, since we only need it for bare metal provisioning.
Comment 7 Dan Callaghan 2013-11-22 00:00:48 UTC 
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/2530
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