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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001495 | channel: elrepo/el8 | --elrepo--OTHER-- | public | 2024-12-05 04:48 | 2024-12-15 06:15 |
| Reporter | spomata | Assigned To | toracat | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | confirmed | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0001495: /etc/sysconfig/kernel value not honored when set to kernel-lt-core/kernel-ml-core | ||||
| Description | On Rocky Linux 8, using kernel-lt installed via dnf, grub menu list order is not obeying the directive set in /etc/sysconfig/kernel: ====================================== [spomata@host ~ ]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if kernel-install should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-lt-core ====================================== Is there a recommended way to have the distribution obey this directive on kernel install/update? | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | sudo dnf install kernel-lt sudo reboot | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I can reproduce the issue. This also happens with other kernel types such as 'kernel-rt' on a system running RHEL. However it is not consistent. There are cases where the value of DEFAULTKERNEL is honored. Needs investigation as to what is causing the different behavior. |
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References [1] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4343 "Updating a kernel makes it become the default even if its "family" is not the expected one" [2] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4326431 "Changing the default kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 & 9" [3] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6975553 "Updating the RT kernel makes the system boot latest non-RT kernel or the opposite" [4] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux_for_real_time/9/html/installing_rhel_9_for_real_time/assembly_specifying-the-kernel-to-run_installing-rhel-9-for-real-time#configuring-kernel-rt-as-the-default-boot-kernel_assembly_specifying-the-kernel-to-run "Configuring kernel-rt as the default boot kernel" Ref [1] is interesting. It says, "DEFAULTKERNEL seems deprecated and ignored with the new /usr/lib/kernel/install.d mechanism." |
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Thanks for looking into this. According to RHEL-4343 this should be addressed by grub2-2.02-153.el8, however the grub package version I am running is newer than that and still exhibits the same behaviour. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2024-12-05 04:48 | spomata | New Issue | |
| 2024-12-05 04:48 | spomata | Status | new => assigned |
| 2024-12-05 04:48 | spomata | Assigned To | => toracat |
| 2024-12-05 14:44 | toracat | Status | assigned => acknowledged |
| 2024-12-08 15:21 | toracat | Status | acknowledged => confirmed |
| 2024-12-08 15:21 | toracat | Note Added: 0010226 | |
| 2024-12-08 15:28 | toracat | Note Added: 0010227 | |
| 2024-12-15 06:15 | spomata | Note Added: 0010228 |
