Replacing kernel-automotive with kernel-automotive-debug package fails during %posttrans

[BeeGrech]

Host system details
this is applicable to both x86_64 and aarch64

# rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● auto-sig:rhel9/x86_64/qemu-qa
                  Version: $distro_version (2022-09-27T08:00:44Z)
                   Commit: 93159dfbeaf358c7d044d60fa4ad734a6934bba2cc4d7c493029291aeb1da5f8
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q rpm-ostree
rpm-ostree-2022.13-1.el9.x86_64

Actual behavior

# rpm-ostree override remove kernel-automotive kernel-automotive-core kernel-automotive-modules --install kernel-automotive-debug-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.x86_64.rpm --install kernel-automotive-debug-core-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.x86_64.rpm --install kernel-automotive-debug-modules-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.x86_64.rpm
...
error: Running %posttrans for kernel-automotive-debug-modules: bwrap(/bin/sh): Child process killed by signal 1; run `journalctl -t 'rpm-ostree(kernel-automotive-debug-modules.posttrans)'` for more information

Expected:

one note here it would be nice to support wildcard calling of local directory packages with override replace like
# rpm-ostree override remove kernel-automotive kernel-automotive-core kernel-automotive-modules --install ./kernel-automotive-debug*

however, initial command provided in actual output above expected would be successful replacement of the default kernel with the new debug kernel
...
Success!

Additional log info

Sep 27 13:38:32 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree(kernel-automotive-debug-modules.posttrans)[9778]: Running: dracut -f --kver 5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.x86_64+debug
Sep 27 13:38:32 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree(kernel-automotive-debug-modules.posttrans)[9799]: /usr/bin/dracut: line 1054: /sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path: No such file or directory
Sep 27 13:38:32 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree(kernel-automotive-debug-modules.posttrans)[9782]: dracut: Can't write to /boot: Directory /boot does not exist or is not accessible.

Would you like to work on the issue?

someone else

[BeeGrech]

# rpm -q kernel-automotive*
kernel-automotive-debug-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.aarch64
kernel-automotive-debug-core-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.aarch64
kernel-automotive-debug-modules-5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.aarch64

# uname -r
5.14.0-168.130.el9iv.aarch64

Image appears to be left in a bad state as uname -r should return {version} + debug

[jlebon]

Is kernel-automotive-debug-modules doing something different in its scriptlet than e.g. kernel-debug-modules? I don't think we've encountered that issue for other modules kernel subpackages, include their debug versions.

[BeeGrech]

this is what I got back from dev team on kernel-automotive...
In other words, we should expect the same package from RT. A low probability of significant differences.
Have you tested RT at all?

[jlebon]

This should be fixed by https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2097.

[jlebon]

The proper fix for this is in kernel packaging. I added a more detailed explanation in https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2097#note_1134727559. That said, we should probably consider in rpm-ostree also neutering dracut like we do systemctl (though ideally, we'd detect that it was attempted to be run, and automatically enable the initramfs regeneration bits in the upgrader).

[travier]

As this has been fixed upstream and is one year old now, I think it should be safe to close. Let us know if this is still an issue. Thanks