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Description of problem: While it is documented that --include can only be used once on a dracut command line. This fact is easy to overlook and instead of emitting a comprehensible error message mkinitrd behaves in a difficult to explain way when there are multiple --include command lines supplied. For example when I was testing something with kdump. Sep 20 14:44:18 opal1 kdumpctl[158175]: Rebuilding /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64kdump.img Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 dracut[160390]: Executing: /usr/sbin/dracut --hostonly --hostonly-cmdline --hostonly-i18n -o "plymouth dash resume ifcfg" --add nfs --mount "cfhost:/tftpboot/dumps /kdumproot//tftpboot/dumps nfs rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.64.185,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountproto=udp,local_lock=all,addr=192.168.64.185" --include /etc/hosts /etc/hosts --include /tmp/99ip.conf -f /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64kdump.img 3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64 Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 kdumpctl[158175]: No permission to write to /. Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 dracut[160390]: No permission to write to /. Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 kdumpctl[158175]: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 kdumpctl[158175]: Starting kdump: [FAILED] Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 systemd[1]: kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming. Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 systemd[1]: Unit kdump.service entered failed state. Sep 20 14:44:19 opal1 systemd[1]: kdump.service failed. Dracut is complaining that it can't write to /. However, it should not need to write to / it should only need to write to /boot so this message is confusing. The problem was that in the kdump.conf there was: dracut_args --include /etc/hosts /etc/hosts --include /tmp/99ip.conf /etc/cmdline.d/01mycmdline.conf Possibly adding a little bit of code to: 578 while (($# > 0)); do 579 if [ ${1%%=*} == "++include" ]; then 580 push include_src "$2" 581 push include_target "$3" 582 PARMS_TO_STORE+=" --include '$2' '$3'" 583 shift 2 584 fi 585 shift 586 done That prints an error and then exists the second time through the --include loop would make the program a bit more user friendly.
This looks doable, I will look into it during 7.4 development.
1. "--include /etc/hosts /etc/hosts" this is bogus, you should use "--install /etc/hosts" here 2. "--include /tmp/99ip.conf" is missing the second parameter 3. ok, I will add code for multiple "--include"
(In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #3) > 3. ok, I will add code for multiple "--include" already there: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/dracut.sh#L580
Hmm it looks that there is nothing to do here. The code that Harald mentioned is already in rhel7.