Leapp fails to upgrade the system in reboot phase and prints "Message: Failed to append extra arguments to kernel command line."
Issue
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Upgrading a RHEL 7 system to RHEL 8 fails in the reboot phase, drops to emergency mode and prints the following error message:
============================================================ ERRORS ============================================================ 2021-06-05 15:20:04.141285 [ERROR] Actor: kernelcmdlineconfig Message: Failed to append extra arguments to kernel command line. Summary: Details: Command ['grubby', '--update-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-305.3.1.el8_4.x86_64', '--args=net.ifnames=0'] failed with exit code 1. ============================================================ END OF ERRORS ============================================================
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- leapp
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