Description of problem: I got early boot errors showing up on the screen starting with dracut-pre-udev[494]: sh: line 1: /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory with the Fedora Rawhide KDE Plasma live image Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220617.n.0.iso downloaded from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1986249 The same errors were shown with Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220610.n.1.iso. The journal from when dracut-pre-udev.service was running showed that /sbin/sysctl was not found and the sunrpc kernel module couldn't be loaded. Jun 18 22:34:35 systemd[1]: Starting dracut-pre-udev.service - dracut pre-udev hook... Jun 18 22:34:35 kernel: RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. Jun 18 22:34:35 kernel: RPC: Registered udp transport module. Jun 18 22:34:35 kernel: RPC: Registered tcp transport module. Jun 18 22:34:35 kernel: RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. Jun 18 22:34:35 dracut-pre-udev[494]: sh: line 1: /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory Jun 18 22:34:35 dracut-pre-udev[493]: modprobe: ERROR: libkmod/libkmod-module.c:990 command_do() Error running install command '/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sunrpc && /sbin/sysctl -q --pattern sunrpc --system' for module sunrpc: retcode 127 Jun 18 22:34:35 dracut-pre-udev[493]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'sunrpc': Invalid argument Jun 18 22:34:35 rpc.statd[508]: Version 2.6.1 starting Jun 18 22:34:35 rpc.statd[508]: Initializing NSM state Jun 18 22:34:35 rpc.statd[508]: Running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/statd to choose different user Jun 18 22:34:35 rpc.idmapd[513]: Setting log level to 0 Jun 18 22:34:36 systemd[1]: Finished dracut-pre-udev.service - dracut pre-udev hook. dracut-pre-udev tried to run /sbin/sysctl which wasn't in the initramfs according to sudo lsinitrd. These errors appeared every time I booted Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220617.n.0.iso from a USB flash drive on bare metal and in a VM with GNOME Boxes using QEMU/KVM and EFI enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-056-2.fc37.x86_64 kernel-5.19.0-0.rc2.20220616git30306f6194ca.23.fc37.x86_64 procps-ng-3.3.17-5.fc37.x86_64 How reproducible: These errors appeared every time I booted Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220617.n.0.iso Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora Rawhide KDE Plasma live image Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20220617.n.0.iso from a USB flash drive on bare metal or in a VM with GNOME Boxes using QEMU/KVM and EFI enabled. 2. 3. Actual results: Early boot errors starting with dracut-pre-udev[494]: sh: line 1: /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory Expected results: No boot errors would appear. Additional info: A Fedora 36 KDE Plasma installation fully updated to 2022-6-18 with updates-testing enabled hasn't shown these errors.
Adam Williamson reported that these errors are related to an nfs-utils update as described at bug 2100668 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2100668 ***