This is a mirror issue already fixed upstream: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/194 Please backport relevant patch or update dracut to 045. Description of problem: `--kerneldir` option should only be about where to get kernel modules from, not about where to place them inside initramfs. But the actual result is that modules are copied preserving the full path, effectively making the modules "missing" in the initramfs (because are placed outside of `/lib/modules`). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-044-78.fc25.x86_64 How reproducible: Example test case: ``` $ dracut --nomdadmconf --nolvmconf --kmoddir ~/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64 --modules 'kernel-modules qubes-vm-simple' --conf '/dev/null' --confdir '/var/empty' -d 'xenblk xen-blkfront cdrom ext4 jbd2 crc16 dm_snapshot' -f initrd.test 4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64 $ lsinitrd initrd.test |grep /lib/modules Arguments: --nomdadmconf --nolvmconf --kmoddir '/home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64' --modules 'kernel-modules qubes-vm-simple' --conf '/dev/null' --confdir '/var/empty' -d 'xenblk xen-blkfront cdrom ext4 jbd2 crc16 dm_snapshot' -f drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto/async_tx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6904 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13288 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto/async_tx/async_pq.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13144 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto/async_tx/async_raid6_recov.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8120 Nov 7 09:59 home/user/install-mod/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/crypto/async_tx/async_tx.ko (...) drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.alias -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.alias.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6933 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.builtin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9440 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.builtin.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.dep -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.dep.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.devname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122893 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.order -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.softdep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.symbols -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 12 Nov 7 09:59 usr/lib/modules/4.4.38-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.symbols.bin ``` Full debug output: https://gist.github.com/marmarek/2efecb1e4f74ce3a42bcc3e7c7aa64af Actual results: Broken initramfs image - modules placed in wrong directory. Expected results: Working initramfs image with modules usr/lib/modules Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1431317 ***