Bug 1952400 - During install boot dracut throws warnings of "ignored null byte in input"
Summary: During install boot dracut throws warnings of "ignored null byte in input"
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Status: ON_QA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dracut
Version: 8.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Pavel Valena
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-22 08:32 UTC by Lev Veyde
Modified: 2023-07-19 08:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dracut-049-224.git20230330.el8
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Last Closed: 2022-11-01 07:29:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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Boot process showing the warning messages (35.32 KB, image/png)
2021-04-22 08:34 UTC, Lev Veyde
no flags Details


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Github dracutdevs dracut pull 1379 0 None closed fix(img-lib): Fixed the "ignored null byte in input" issue 2021-04-22 19:44:43 UTC

Description Lev Veyde 2021-04-22 08:32:36 UTC
Description of problem:
Booting RHEL installation image throws warnings like this:

dracut-initqueue[1033]: /lib/img-lib.sh: line 12: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot RHEL or RHV-H installation ISO
2. Watch the warning messages

Actual results:
Warning messages appear

Expected results:
Boot should be clean

Additional info:
This happens for quite some time now and affects both RHEL and RHV-H (and any other derived ISOs which are based on RHEL)
The affected file is supplied by the dracut-live package.

A patch to the u/s was submitted for review:
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/1379

Comment 1 Lev Veyde 2021-04-22 08:34:26 UTC
Created attachment 1774358 [details]
Boot process showing the warning messages

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2022-11-01 07:29:10 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.

Comment 6 Pavel Valena 2023-03-14 20:13:05 UTC
I've prepared a pull request:
https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/dracut-rhel8/pull/25

Comment 15 Pavel Valena 2023-07-19 08:21:34 UTC
Moving to ITM 26 as agreed with QE.


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