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Bug 1785254 - xorg-x11-server-Xorg should require a release specific libdrm
Summary: xorg-x11-server-Xorg should require a release specific libdrm
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 7.8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-12-19 14:02 UTC by jcastran
Modified: 2023-03-24 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-11 21:49:05 UTC
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Description jcastran 2019-12-19 14:02:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
When updating older versions of xorg-x11-server-Xorg, it will not pull in a higher version of libdrm and then fails to start with:

   Xorg: symbol lookup error: Xorg: undefined symbol: drmFreeDevice


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Every release of xorg-x11-server-Xorg

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL 7.2 and "Server with GUI"
2. yum update xorg-x11-server-Xorg
3.

Actual results:
xorg-x11-server-Xorg is updated but libdrm is not since the requirement is not version specific. It then fails to start with:

   Xorg: symbol lookup error: Xorg: undefined symbol: drmFreeDevice


Expected results:
libdrm should be pulled in at a later version.

Additional info:
# repoquery xorg-x11-server-Xorg --requires | grep drm
  libdrm.so.2()(64bit)

The initial installation of xorg-x11-server-Xorg will pull in mesa-libgbm which does have a release specific dependency. 

# repoquery mesa-libgbm --requires | grep drm
  libdrm >= 2.4.83
  libdrm.so.2
  libdrm >= 2.4.83
  libdrm.so.2()(64bit)


So if we can get xorg-x11-server-Xorg to have the same thing or require mesa-libgbm get updated, then we can avoid this issue.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Actual output of updating ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With lower versions installed and higher versions of libdrm available:

# rpm -q xorg-x11-server-Xorg libdrm
  xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.2-10.el7.x86_64
  libdrm-2.4.60-3.el7.x86_64

# yum list libdrm --showduplicates
  Installed Packages
    libdrm.x86_64                             2.4.60-3.el7                                @anaconda/7.2    
  Available Packages
    libdrm.x86_64                             2.4.97-2.el7                                rhel-7-server-rpms

We don't see libdrm being pulled in because any version of libdrm provides the requirement of "libdrm.so.2()(64bit)"

# yum update xorg-x11-server-Xorg
  =====================================================================================
   Package                 Arch    Version                   Repository           Size
  =====================================================================================
  Updating:
   xorg-x11-server-Xorg    x86_64  1.20.4-7.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms  1.5 M
  Installing for dependencies:
   libXfont2               x86_64  2.0.3-1.el7               rhel-7-server-rpms  143 k
  Updating for dependencies:
   xorg-x11-drv-ati        x86_64  19.0.1-2.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms  166 k
   xorg-x11-drv-dummy      x86_64  0.3.7-1.el7.1             rhel-7-server-rpms   18 k
   xorg-x11-drv-evdev      x86_64  2.10.6-1.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms   48 k
   xorg-x11-drv-fbdev      x86_64  0.5.0-1.el7               rhel-7-server-rpms   21 k
   xorg-x11-drv-intel      x86_64  2.99.917-28.20180530.el7  rhel-7-server-rpms  676 k
   xorg-x11-drv-nouveau    x86_64  1:1.0.15-1.el7            rhel-7-server-rpms   96 k
   xorg-x11-drv-qxl        x86_64  0.1.5-5.el7               rhel-7-server-rpms   92 k
   xorg-x11-drv-synaptics  x86_64  1.9.0-2.el7               rhel-7-server-rpms   82 k
   xorg-x11-drv-v4l        x86_64  0.2.0-49.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms   21 k
   xorg-x11-drv-vesa       x86_64  2.4.0-3.el7               rhel-7-server-rpms   25 k
   xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse    x86_64  13.1.0-1.el7.1            rhel-7-server-rpms   24 k
   xorg-x11-drv-vmware     x86_64  13.2.1-1.el7.1            rhel-7-server-rpms   83 k
   xorg-x11-drv-void       x86_64  1.4.1-2.el7.1             rhel-7-server-rpms   15 k
   xorg-x11-drv-wacom      x86_64  0.36.1-3.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms  315 k
   xorg-x11-server-common  x86_64  1.20.4-7.el7              rhel-7-server-rpms   55 k

  Transaction Summary
  =====================================================================================
  Install             (  1 Dependent package)
  Upgrade  1 Package  (+15 Dependent packages)



==================== Additional Additional Note ============================
The same dependency issue exists in RHEL 8 but I have not tested if the same problem exists. I suspect if it doesn't exist now, it will later as we release newer and newer versions of libdrm so we may want to clone this request to RHEL 8 as well.
Comment 3 Chris Williams 2020-11-11 21:49:05 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 shipped it's final minor release on September 29th, 2020. 7.9 was the last minor releases scheduled for RHEL 7.
From intial triage it does not appear the remaining Bugzillas meet the inclusion criteria for Maintenance Phase 2 and will now be closed. 

From the RHEL life cycle page:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Maintenance_Support_2_Phase
"During Maintenance Support 2 Phase for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7,Red Hat defined Critical and Important impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected (at Red Hat discretion) Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available."

If this BZ was closed in error and meets the above criteria please re-open it flag for 7.9.z, provide suitable business and technical justifications, and follow the process for Accelerated Fixes:
https://source.redhat.com/groups/public/pnt-cxno/pnt_customer_experience_and_operations_wiki/support_delivery_accelerated_fix_release_handbook  

Feature Requests can re-opened and moved to RHEL 8 if the desired functionality is not already present in the product. 

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