Description of problem: During the reboot step, Leapp is unable to mount /boot, it uses a wrong device name. After that, it is unable to proceed with the first actor (remove_grub_boot_entry). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): leapp-repository-0.14.0-4.el7_9.noarch How reproducible: Always for the customer. Actual results: ~~~~~~~~~ [...] Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost upgrade[3457]: mount: /dev/sdk2 is already mounted or /boot busy Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-17): Mounting V5 Filesystem Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost upgrade[3457]: mount: mount point /boot/efi does not exist Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-17): Ending clean mount Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-18): Mounting V5 Filesystem Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-18): Ending clean mount Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-15): Mounting V5 Filesystem Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-15): Ending clean mount Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-16): Mounting V5 Filesystem Sep 28 03:57:49 localhost kernel: XFS (dm-16): Ending clean mount Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: ==> Processing phase `InitRamStart` Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: ====> * remove_upgrade_boot_entry Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: Remove boot entry for Leapp provided initramfs. Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: Process Process-165: Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: Traceback (most recent call last): [...] Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/__init__.py", line 188, in run Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: result=result Sep 28 03:57:54 localhost upgrade[3457]: CalledProcessError: Command ['/usr/sbin/grubby', '--remove-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-upgrade.x86_64'] failed with exit code 1. Sep 28 03:57:55 localhost upgrade[3457]: ========================================================================================================== Sep 28 03:57:55 localhost upgrade[3457]: Actor remove_upgrade_boot_entry unexpectedly terminated with exit code: 1 - Please check the above details Sep 28 03:57:55 localhost upgrade[3457]: ========================================================================================================== [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Additional info: * The issue here is the fact /dev/sdk2 does not correspond to the boot partition ~~~ sda 8:0 0 100G 0 disk `-<WWID> 253:9 0 100G 0 mpath |-<WWID>p1 253:10 0 256M 0 part /boot/efi |-<WWID>p2 253:11 0 500M 0 part /boot : sdk 8:160 0 100G 0 disk `-<WWID> 253:9 0 100G 0 mpath |-<WWID>p1 253:10 0 256M 0 part /boot/efi |-<WWID>p2 253:11 0 500M 0 part /boot ~~~ * From my understanding, it's a timing issue with multipathd. The customer have lots of disks behind an Hitachi storage array, and only /boot and /boot/efi are not part of LVM. * Changing the fstab to use the /dev/mapper/path (with the wwids in this case) fixed the issue. The fstab entries have been reverted back once the system has been upgraded.
This bug is blocked by: Bug 2169770 - System boot hangs after mounting /sysroot when multipath is enabled in the initramfs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169770