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remove redundant one-shot workarounds #116

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phillxnet opened this issue Jul 22, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #117
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remove redundant one-shot workarounds #116

phillxnet opened this issue Jul 22, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #117
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During early development we had issues regarding initial boot of the resulting installer. To resolve this we enacted the following one-shot systemd services:
dracut_hostonly.service: dracut -f
grub_config.service: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

It is now thought that these redundant workarounds are interfering with proper function of modern kiwi-ng.

Referencing original discussion on their use with upstream once found, it was a few years ago now I think.

N.B. One of the above services is currently thought to be causing a kexec issue during our normal installer flow.

Current/modern builds are not able to kexec their way from installer to installed system.
I.e. directly after: https://rockstor.com/docs/installation/installer-howto.html#loading-rockstor
we are greeted with: "Failed to kexec boot system":

failed-kexec-boot-system

Accepting the OK at this point or just waiting around a minute and we are auto-rebooted into the now installed system anyway. But this is a rather pool user experience never-the-less.
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There has recently been some upstream changes regarding re-enabling some oem specific settings that were found to have been ineffectual.
https://documentation.suse.com/kiwi/9/single-html/kiwi/index.html#oem-customize
There has also been some recent upstream work on kexec changes.

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LInking to short conversation with upstream on the pr suspected to have made our dracut -f one-shot systemd service redundant.

OSInside/kiwi#1269 (comment)

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@phillxnet phillxnet changed the title remove redundant one-shot work-arounds remove redundant one-shot workarounds Jul 22, 2022
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remove redundant one-shot first-boot workarounds rockstor#116
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At one time these oneshot first boot only systemd
services were required to rebuild the initrd image
and re-install grub. They now represent a distance
with upstream that can only complicate things.
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Merge pull request #117 from phillxnet/116_remove_redundant_one-shot_…
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remove redundant one-shot first-boot workarounds #116
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