Bug 1216465

Summary:	dracut-kiwi-lib requires parted on all architectures
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Georg Pfuetzenreuter <georg.pfuetzenreuter>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	David Cassany <dcassany>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
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Description Georg Pfuetzenreuter 2023-10-22 14:42:05 UTC

Hi,

the patch

https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/openSUSE:Factory/python-kiwi?linkrev=base&rev=105#diff_1_n108

moved the `Requires: parted` line into an if-conditional making it only apply on the s390 architecture.

Unfortunately the changelog entry does only reveal that, and not why, this change was made, however it breaks the first boot off Kiwi built images on other architectures, if parted is not manually included in the package selection:

```
         Starting dracut pre-mount hook...
[    2.496338] dracut-pre-mount[430]: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-fsck-root.service → /dev/null.
[    8.006393] dracut-pre-mount[749]: /lib/kiwi-partitions-lib.sh: line 23: partprobe: command not found
[    8.018705][  T420] dracut: FATAL: Failed to create partition table
[    8.019997][  T420] dracut: Refusing to continue
[    8.048843] dracut-pre-mount[755]: Failed to get properties: Transport endpoint is not connected
[    8.112482][    T1] reboot: System halted
```

Could `parted` be moved back to outside of the `%ifarch s390 s390x` block or is there more to consider here?

Best,
Georg

Comment 1 Georg Pfuetzenreuter 2023-10-22 14:54:01 UTC

Upon a closer investigation, it seems the Kiwi master branch already has a patch dropping the requirement for `partprobe`:

https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/commit/4ab089ac5244c1d867be850ec99bc81814466bf7

Hence, instead of moving out the `parted` requirement, it might make more sense to pick that commit into our tree? :-)

Comment 2 David Cassany 2023-10-26 04:58:38 UTC

Hi,

Indeed you are right there a parted requirement issue, we are in the process of finding a solution upstream here within the following PR:

https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/pull/2385

Thanks to the bug report we also realized the issue is affecting upstream master branch for live ISOs, where there is no blockdev fallback to partprobe. Once fixed that upstream I would backport to 15.x series the required commits.

Comment 4 Maintenance Automation 2024-01-08 20:30:10 UTC

SUSE-RU-2024:0053-1: An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 1216465
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