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Bug 1955836 - dmsquash-live-ntfs depends on ntfs-3g which isn't available
Summary: dmsquash-live-ntfs depends on ntfs-3g which isn't available
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dracut
Version: 9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-30 23:51 UTC by Brian Lane
Modified: 2023-03-15 01:20 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-05-04 11:11:37 UTC
Type: Bug
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live.log (557.52 KB, text/plain)
2021-05-03 16:21 UTC, Brian Lane 		no flags Details
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Description Brian Lane 2021-04-30 23:51:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
While testing live media creation with livemedia-creator I found that dmsquash-live is including dmsquash-live-ntfs which depends on ntfs-3g, this causes the rebuild of the iso initrd to fail. I'm pretty sure we're not shipping ntfs support so this needs to be adjusted to remove dmsquash-live-ntfs


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-live-051-1.el9.1.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:
always

2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90dmsquash-live-ntfs/module-setup.sh@6(check): require_binaries ntfs-3g
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@108(require_binaries): local _module_name=90dmsquash-live-ntfs
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@109(require_binaries): local _ret=0
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@111(require_binaries): [[ ntfs-3g = \-\m ]]
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@116(require_binaries): for cmd in "$@"
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@117(require_binaries): find_binary ntfs-3g
2021-04-30 16:36:02,881 INFO: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-init.sh@118(require_binaries): dinfo 'dracut module '\''dmsquash-live-ntfs'\'' will not be installed, because command '\''ntfs-3g'\'' could not be found!'
Comment 1 David Tardon 2021-05-03 08:41:57 UTC 
dmsquash-live does not require dmsquash-live-ntfs and it never has. In fact, nothing in dracut itself does. Please attach the output of "dracut -v".
Comment 2 Brian Lane 2021-05-03 16:21:46 UTC 
Created attachment 1779050 [details]
live.log

Installing dracut-live certainly is including it:

# dracut --list-modules | grep -i ntfs
(nothing listed)

# dnf install dracut-live
Installing:
 dracut-live               x86_64               051-1.el9.1                AppStream                21 k

# dracut --list-modules | grep live
dmsquash-live
dmsquash-live-ntfs
livenet


Attached is the output from:
"dracut --debug --add dmsquash-live test.img `uname -r` |& tee live.log"

Works fine without the `--add dmsquash`
Comment 3 David Tardon 2021-05-04 11:11:37 UTC 
dmsquash-live is skipped in hostonly mode. Call dracut with --no-hostonly or install package dracut-nohostonly.
Comment 4 Lukas Zapletal 2021-12-15 12:19:40 UTC 
For the record, if you hit this bug and you want your LiveCD to build, use this option in livemedia-creator: --dracut-arg "-o dmsquash-live-ntfs"
Comment 5 Lukas Zapletal 2021-12-15 13:00:38 UTC 
Oh it does not boot, does not know how to handle root=live:CDLABEL:xyz. It looks like dracut omitted all dmsquash modules:

Version: dracut-049-191.git20210920.el8

Arguments: --nomdadmconf --nolvmconf -o 'dmsquash-live-ntfs' --force

dracut modules:
bash
systemd
systemd-initrd
nss-softokn
network-manager
network
ifcfg
prefixdevname
kernel-modules
kernel-modules-extra
kernel-network-modules
rootfs-block
terminfo
udev-rules
biosdevname
dracut-systemd
usrmount
base
fs-lib
memstrack
microcode_ctl-fw_dir_override
shutdown

How can I workaround this problem?
Comment 6 Brian Lane 2021-12-15 17:01:56 UTC 
For future reference, the problem I was having was my fault, livemedia-creator was including dmsquash-live-ntfs (because the code was imported from Fedora) and my attempt to reproduce it in a simple fashion was invalid. This was fixed in lorax-34.9.1-1 in RHEL 9, and was not present in RHEL 8.
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