Bug 1255659 – [RFE] Store lvmdump (or sosreport) as the first thing after anaconda starts

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Bug 1255659 - [RFE] Store lvmdump (or sosreport) as the first thing after anaconda starts

Summary:	[RFE] Store lvmdump (or sosreport) as the first thing after anaconda starts

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	high Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Jiri Konecny
QA Contact:	Release Test Team
Docs Contact:	Filip Hanzelka

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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Blocks:	1395321 1427800
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Reported:	2015-08-21 05:28 EDT by Marian Csontos
Modified:	2017-08-01 04:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

See Also:	1327091
Fixed In Version:	anaconda-21.48.22.100-1
Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	"inst.debug" enables a more convenient debugging of Anaconda installation issues This update adds the ability to save logs related to the initial state of the machine by starting the Anaconda installation with the "inst.debug" boot option. This option stores three additional logs, lsblk, dmesg and lvmdump, in the `/tmp/pre-anaconda-logs/` directory, allowing a more convenient debugging of issues which occurred during the installation.
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Clones:	1427800 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2017-08-01 04:50:51 EDT
Type:	Bug
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2017:2293	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	anaconda bug fix and enhancement update	2017-08-01 08:39:44 EDT

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Description Marian Csontos 2015-08-21 05:28:08 EDT

Analysis of storage related issues post-mortem is rather difficult as the state of the storage before anaconda changes it is unknown and has to be reverse engineered from incomplete logs (dmesg is missing systemd related messages for example.)

Comment 2 Samantha N. Bueno 2016-01-26 12:08:55 EST

We can always make sure to run lsblk by default into program.log -- that should dump a pretty good amount of useful information.

Comment 3 Jan Stodola 2016-02-03 09:01:00 EST

It might also be useful to run lvdisplay/vgdisplay/pvdisplay or cat /proc/mdstat.

Some inspiration can be found in dracut's rdsosreport.sh:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/tree/modules.d/99base/rdsosreport.sh

Comment 5 Michal Kovarik 2016-08-09 07:56:52 EDT

Tested on RHEL-7.3-20160729.1 with anaconda-21.48.22.81-1. Service anaconda-pre.service is not available.

[anaconda root@localhost /] readlink /usr/lib/systemd/system/anaconda.target.wants/anaconda-pre.service
/lib/systemd/system/anaconda-pre.service
[anaconda root@localhost /] ls /lib/systemd/system/anaconda-pre.service
ls: cannot access /lib/systemd/system/anaconda-pre.service: No such file or directory

Comment 6 Jiri Konecny 2016-08-11 05:05:03 EDT

PR: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/731

Comment 8 Peter Kotvan 2016-08-29 06:46:54 EDT

HandsOn

Comment 9 Peter Kotvan 2016-08-29 07:25:34 EDT

Verified on RHEL-7.3-20160825.1 with anaconda-21.48.22.86-1.el7.

Comment 12 Peter Kotvan 2016-08-31 01:39:07 EDT

Sounds reasonable to me.

Comment 14 Paul Wouters 2016-11-30 15:37:26 EST

note this means a package needs to depend on socat. Funny enough, currently not a single package in rhel6 or rhel7 "Requires" socat

Comment 15 Jiri Konecny 2017-02-03 11:19:04 EST

PR in Lorax to add new dependencies: https://github.com/rhinstaller/lorax/pull/181

PR to Anaconda: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/947

Comment 16 Jiri Konecny 2017-02-03 11:21:34 EST

Hi Paul,

I've add dependency on nmap-ncat instead of socat. So socat is still not required.

Jirka

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2017-04-28 09:15:29 EDT

anaconda-26.21.4-1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f620d8c7c2

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 04:50:51 EDT

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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2293

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