On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 09:05:48PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Nov 11 20:37:26 f26s.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Switch Root. >> Nov 11 20:37:26 f26s.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Switch Root... >> Nov 11 20:37:26 f26s.localdomain systemd[1]: Switching root. >> Nov 11 20:37:26 f26s.localdomain systemd-journald[200]: Journal stopped >> Nov 11 20:37:32 f27s.localdomain systemd-journald[200]: Received >> SIGTERM from PID 1 (systemd). >> Nov 11 20:37:32 f27s.localdomain kernel: systemd: 17 output lines >> suppressed due to ratelimiting >> >> >> I'm not sure what component's bug this is. All I've done after dnf >> system-upgrade from F26 to F27 is 'hostnamectl set-hostname >> f27s.localdomain' but every reboot, it looks like initramfs stuff has >> the old hostname and then after switchroot and journal stopping and >> starting up again, it gets the new hostname. It's unexpected, I don't >> remember this behavior with F25 to F26. >> >> So... systemd or dracut? >> >> If I do dracut -f, the problem is fixed. But storing the hostname in >> the initramfs doesn't seem like a good idea just for this reason, get >> a stale one polluting the log every boot and maybe there are other >> effects. > > This is a well known limitation of no-hostonly dracut images: the > initramfs contains local configuration and has to be rebuilt when that > changes. Alas, rebuilding the initramfs (initramfs-es actually) is > considered too risky to do automatically on something as trivial as > hostname change. So your choices are either to stop using hostonly > images (in which case you'll get the default hostname) or to rebuild > any images after changing the hostname. > > I expect that in F25 you didn't have a host-only image, so you didn't > see this. Or maybe I didn't notice it before a new kernel, and hence new initramfs, was created. Thanks for the explanation. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
