Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1462979
/var/lib/rpm setup broken for RHELAH 7.4 cloud image
Last modified: 2017-08-01 04:57:18 EDT
After booting the most recent 7.4 cloud image (rhel-atomic-cloud-7.4.0-5.x86_64.qcow2) which corresponds to the ostree commit 0b62181fb3, I'm unable to query the RPM database: # atomic host status State: idle Deployments: ● rhel-atomic-host:rhel-atomic-host/7/x86_64/standard Version: 7.4.0 (2017-06-16 21:48:31) Commit: 0b62181fb351d26ebb794438174c8dbc2ea5cc4c04c589b7be82e15695a2bbbb # rpm -qa # echo $? 0 # ls -l /var/lib/rpm total 360 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Basenames -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Conflictname -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 286720 Jun 19 19:22 __db.001 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 90112 Jun 19 19:22 __db.002 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57344 Jun 19 19:22 __db.003 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Dirnames -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Group -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Installtid -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Name -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Obsoletename -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12288 Jun 16 22:53 Packages -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Providename -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Requirename -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Sha1header -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 16 22:53 Triggername This is different when compared to a 7.3 RHELAH host: # atomic host status State: idle Deployments: ● custom:rhel-atomic-host/7/x86_64/standard Version: 7.3.5 (2017-05-22 22:00:44) Commit: 0ccf9138962e5c2c3794969a228e751d13bb780f5b0a1f15f4a9649df06ba80a # rpm -qa | wc -l 418 # ls -l /var/lib/rpm lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 19 Feb 27 20:36 /var/lib/rpm -> ../../usr/share/rpm
I confirmed this doesn't affect an ISO install, so it's likely specific to us doing something like this bit in the cloud kickstart: ``` # Additional drivers for vmware and hyperv echo 'add_drivers+="mptspi vmw_pvscsi "' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/vmware-fusion-drivers.conf echo 'add_drivers+="hv_storvsc hv_netvsc "' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/hyperv-drivers.conf # Rerun dracut for the installed kernel (not the running kernel): KERNEL_VERSION=$(rpm -q kernel --qf '%{V}-%{R}.%{arch}\n') dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$KERNEL_VERSION.img $KERNEL_VERSION ```
Hm, no this did happen to me with an ISO install. Something (most likely in Anaconda code) is using librpm and hence creating /var/lib/rpm in the installer, before the symlink is set up.
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1110
*** Bug 1464363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1464376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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