Upgrade from Oracle Linux 7.9 to Oracle Linux 8.10 fails on reboot

[kwame]

Hello,

I'm performing an upgrade from Oracle Linux 7.9 to Oracle Linux 8.10 a55s and the process works fine until the last reboot.
During the last reboot I see the system being upgraded and then when it's performing the package upgrade there is an error on the console that says

systemd[1] systemd-journald.service: Killing process 311 (systemd-journal) with signal SIGKILL
systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Failed with result 'timeout'
stopped journal service
systemd[1]: startup finished in 8.167s (kernel) + 0 (initrd) + 7min 7.6(userspace) = 7min 15.823s

and then the system just falls into a root prompt in the console

Any idea on what would the problem be?

[pirat89]

@kwame we are not familiar with differences on OL, but so far I haven't seen such an error yet on RHEL. have there been some additional errors anywhere?

I am also confused about the statement until the last reboot and when it's performing the package upgrade - the last reboot is happening after all other stuff is finished and the last reboot will not happen in case of previous errors as the machine ends in such a case in an emergency shell. or so far when speaking about this project. I am aware that Oracle did some modifications in downstream so there could be a different behaviour during the upgrade process 🤷

About reboots:

• first reboot is when everything for the upgrade is prepared and user wants to start the upgrade itself
• second reboot happens when the upgrade is almost finished
• third reboot happens if selinux is enabled - as selinux relabelling is needed and after that "selinux" automatically reboot the system again
• then the upgraded system is going to boot - and the last phase of IPUWorkflow is performed.

For more details: https://leapp-repository.readthedocs.io/latest/upgrade-architecture-and-workflow/phases-overview.html

[perseptron]

Have you lvm2-cluster installed on your system?

[pirat89]

I would expect a different error if lvm2-cluster is installed, IIRC. So I guess this is not the case when the package is installed. But yes, if it's present on the system before the upgrade, it can lead to a failure.

[bocekm]

For issues related to upgrading OL you can talk to Oracle under https://github.com/openela/leapp-repository.

[pirat89]

Closing as basically we do not have enough information about the problem to do any investigation. Feel free to reopen the ticket with the reproducer on RHEL systems.