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Bug 2213749

Summary: Symlink on some devices disappear after running the 'insights-client --register' command on the host.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Nikhil Gupta <ngupta>
Component: insights-clientAssignee: CSI Client Tools Bugs <csi-client-tools-bugs>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team <rhsm-qe>
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Version: 8.7CC: ahitacat, cmarinea, fjansen, pakotvan, stomsa
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Description Nikhil Gupta 2023-06-09 07:06:01 UTC
Description of problem:
Symlink on some devices disappears after running the 'insights-client --register' command. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 8.7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check the devices
~~~
# ls -rtl /dev | grep sd
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   0 Jun  9 02:45 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   1 Jun  9 02:45 sda1
~~~

2. Here ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT} is taken from the output of the following command
~~~
# udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/sda1 | grep ID_SERIAL_SHORT
~~~

3. Create a symlink by creating the udev rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/61-persistent-disk.rules' file:
~~~
ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}=="2a3b8c45-487c-42cf-b87a-hr712b1mn12o", SYMLINK+="wlopt"
~~~

4. To load the udev rule(s) without rebooting the system, run the following command:
~~~
# /sbin/udevadm control --reload-rules
# /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add
~~~

5. Check the symlink:
~~~
# ls -rtl /dev | grep sd
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   0 Jun  9 02:45 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   1 Jun  9 02:45 sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root           4 Jun  9 02:45 wlopt -> sda1   <<<<==== New
~~~

6. Run the 'insights-client --register' command to register the host with Insights.

Actual results:
The new symlink disappears:
~~~
# ls -rtl /dev | grep sd
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   0 Jun  9 02:47 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk      8,   1 Jun  9 02:47 sda1
~~~

Expected results:
The symlink should not disappear from the host.

Comment 6 Alba Hita 2023-08-30 08:09:30 UTC
The problem seems to be in the parted command that uses insights-core. 
I will close this bug because is not an insights-client issue and there are other bugs to handle the root problem.