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Bug 1961265

Summary: Make grub2 more robust against Open Firmware storage race condition causing system boot failures [rhel-8.4.0.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: RHEL Program Management Team <pgm-rhel-tools>
Component: grub2Assignee: Jan Hlavac <jhlavac>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.4CC: bugproxy, dhorak, didoming, diegodo, fmartine, fnovak, gduarte, jhlavac, jomiller, mgandhi, pjanda, rmetrich, sbarcomb, sgardner
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA, Triaged, ZStream
Target Release: 8.4Flags: fnovak: needinfo-
pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: ppc64le   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: grub2-2.02-99.el8_4.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Story Points: ---
Clone Of: 1942152 Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-09-21 08:49:53 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 1942152    
Bug Blocks: 1949534    
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Description Flags
ppc64le updated rpm packages none

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2021-07-11 18:52:13 UTC 
------- Comment From gusld.com 2021-07-11 14:41 EDT-------
Red Hat,

I see this is still in MODIFIED state... is this on track for inclusion into RHEL 8.4.0.z Batch Update 2 ? Is there anything needed from IBM?
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2021-07-23 19:50:39 UTC 
------- Comment From chavez.com 2021-07-23 15:48 EDT-------
*** Bug 193701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2021-07-26 19:30:39 UTC 
------- Comment From gusld.com 2021-07-26 15:26 EDT-------
Red Hat,

Any update on this zstream bug?
Comment 4 Frank Novak 2021-09-01 16:43:57 UTC 
What's the status on this? There's been deafening silence here for month+
Comment 8 Petr Janda 2021-09-10 16:08:28 UTC 
Created attachment 1822169 [details]
ppc64le updated rpm packages
Comment 9 Petr Janda 2021-09-10 16:16:13 UTC 
Hello IBM,

can you test packages in attachment 1822169 [details] please?

Petr
Comment 10 Petr Janda 2021-09-10 16:18:24 UTC 
Just adding another IBM person as I don't know who is monitoring this bug.
Comment 11 Jan Hlavac 2021-09-12 20:13:39 UTC 
Hi IBM,

I apologize for the delay.

We would like to get the fix into the upcoming Batch update 3.

As Petr mentioned, we would appreciate your help with testing. You can use the archive provided by Petr, which contains only the necessary packages. A full set of noarch and ppc64le packages is also available:

https://people.redhat.com/~jhlavac/packages/grub2-2.02-99.el8_4.1

Maybe Diego Domingos (diegodo.com), who is also the author of the patch, could help.

Best regards,

Jan
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2021-09-21 08:49:53 UTC 
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 (grub2 bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2021:3595
Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-15 01:06:44 UTC 
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days