AEM upgrade locks up

[Chris Laprise]

Upgrading : anti-evil-maid-4.0.2-1

After 25 minutes nothing has happened. Ctrl-c doesn't stop it so I'll
have to reboot without completing the dnf transaction...


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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:03:44PM -0500, Chris Laprise wrote:
> Upgrading : anti-evil-maid-4.0.2-1
>
> After 25 minutes nothing has happened. Ctrl-c doesn't stop it so I'll have
> to reboot without completing the dnf transaction...

Do you have a process list? There is a initramfs regeneration in a
post-install script and it can take few minutes (but definitely not half
an hour).

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[Chris Laprise]

On 1/16/20 12:21 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:03:44PM -0500, Chris Laprise wrote:
>> Upgrading : anti-evil-maid-4.0.2-1
>>
>> After 25 minutes nothing has happened. Ctrl-c doesn't stop it so I'll have
>> to reboot without completing the dnf transaction...
>
> Do you have a process list? There is a initramfs regeneration in a
> post-install script and it can take few minutes (but definitely not half
> an hour).

I just tried again a couple times with dnf for 10min each (unfortunately
I forgot to use -v).

Looking at top, what's happening is that gzip and cpio appear for about
10sec but majority of time is with dracut sitting with the highest CPU
usage (about 15%). There is a cycle where every few minutes gzip and
cpio will re-appear and then dracut will return and sit at 15% for a few
more minutes.

BUT... I thought it might be getting jammed due to low space on /boot,
so I checked it and there several initramfs files from 4.14 kernels I no
longer have installed. I deleted them, rebooted and ran 'sudo dnf
anti-evil-maid --reinstall' again and it returned to the same hung up
cycle........ re-creating those three 4.14 initramfs files. The current
initramfs file does not get recreated. :(

So I think dracut is suffering some kind of bug or misconfiguration problem.