Fedora Test Day Summary - Dracut

Greetings, As you may recall, last Thursday was the Dracut Test Day [1]. The event was well attended. Thanks to all participants for lending their time, feedback and bug reports. Also, kudos to Alex Todorov and Jan Stodola who helped write and execute the root=nbd [2] and root=nfs [3] dracut test cases. And ... extra thanks to Harald Hoyer who stayed up well into the evening/morning to provide dracut debugging guidance. As always, the full test results matrix can be seen on the wiki, but I've tried to highlight the test configurations, bug reports and test documentation created from the event below. The following root device configurations were requested for testing. * root=/dev/sda1 - PASS * root=LABEL= - PASS * root=UUID= - PASS * root=nfs - PASS * root=nbd - PASS * root=iscsi - PASS * root=lvm+encryption - WARN (see 520109) * root=lvm+raid+encryption - WARN (see 520109) * root=/dev/md0 - FAIL (see 513267, 518793) * root=live_image - FAIL (see 520207) * root=udev-path - UNTESTED * root on cciss - FAIL (see 520125) The following bugs were filed on by participants of the dracut test day. * 519720 NEW - /dev/loopX File exists errors when using dracut * 519733 NEW - LUKS password prompt clobbered by loading module output * 520109 NEW - LVM + RAID + LUKS fails to boot using dracut every other time * 520125 NEW - Dracut fails to boot on cciss storage hardware * 520207 NEW - Filesystem label does not match kernel command line parameter * 519681 ASSIGNED - system hang at set up after reboot by using dracut ramdisk * 513267 ASSIGNED - dracut leaves unbootable system with lvm-on-RAID * 518793 ASSIGNED - Newly installed kernels have initrd-generic that doesn't work with raid * 519537 CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE - Fails to find root on laptop with luks pv The following wiki pages were drafted by test day participants on, or leading up to, the dracut test day. * Dracut Debug guide drafted (thanks Viking_ice!) - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems * 7 Dracut test cases drafted - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Dracut_Test_Cases * 1 Anacaonda test case drafted - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_anaconda_encrypted_lvm_on_raid [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Dracut_root%3Dnfs [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Dracut_root%3Dnbd