Systems with FIPS enabled producing dracut modprobe errors at boot
Issue
- We have just built our first RHEL7.3 system in our test lab. This system is essentially an uncustomized, vanilla build which runs in FIPS compliance mode. During testing, the following errors occur on boot.
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'camellia_aesni_avx_x86_64': No such device
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'camellia_aesni_avx2': No such device
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'cast6_avx_x86_64': No such device
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'serpent_avx_x86_64': No such device
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'serpent_avx2': No such device
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: FATAL: Module sha1 not found.
<Month> <Day> <Time> <hostname> dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'twofish_avx_x86_64': No such device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- FIPS compliance mode
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