Why does the License Information screen appears everytime the RHEL 7.x and RHEL 8.x systems are booted?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x.

Issue

  • After upgrading to the latest RHEL 7.x minor release, the License Information screen appears on every reboot.
  • After upgrading the system to RHEL 8.2 using the Leapp upgrade, the License Information screen appears on every reboot.

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Resolution

Update to leapp-0.11.1-1.el7_9 shipped with Advisory RHBA-2020:4882 or newer.

In case older version of leapp was used for in-place upgrade, manually disable the below services:

# systemctl disable initial-setup.service
# systemctl disable initial-setup-reconfiguration.service
# systemctl disable initial-setup-text.service

Root Cause

  • Previously, the License Information page appeared the first time after OS installation. The service initial-setup.service is responsible for this license prompt. Disabling the service will prevent it from appearing again on next reboot.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Disable the initial-setup.service, initial-setup-reconfiguration.service, and initial-setup-text.service services.

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