Description of problem: When working a 5.3 ia64 problem, I generated a sosreport and attempted to upload it to Issue Tracker. IT refused the upload as it was 100MB+, so I took a look at the sosreport and discovered that it was including all of /boot/efi: <snip> rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.18-118.el5xen rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/xen.gz-2.6.18-53.el5 rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6.18-43.el5xen.img rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6.18-122.el5xen.img rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.18-122.el5xen rx4640.230313-874517/boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen.img </snip> My system had many more kernels installed, I'm just providing a small sample here. sosreport didn't used to do this -> Regression Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@rx4640 tmp]# rpm -q sos sos-1.7-9.13.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run sosreport from 1.7-9.13.el5 on an ia64 2. ... 3. Do not profit Actual results: Huge sosreport with kernels and initrds included Expected results: Non-huge sosreport Additional info: Looking at "sos-capture-elilo-conf.patch" from the sos SRPM in 5.3, this line is probably at fault: 24 + self.addCopySpec("/boot/efi/*") You probably want that to be "/boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.conf" instead.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0171.html