leapp preupgrade fails with error in _get_sysctls ValueError: too many values to unpack

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Issue

  • When trying to upgrade RHEL 7 to RHEL 8, a python traceback is written:

    $ leapp preupgrade  
    ...
    ====> * system_facts
            Provides data about many facts from system.
    Process Process-219:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
        self.run()
      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run
        self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/leapp/repository/actor_definition.py", line 72, in _do_run
        actor_instance.run(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/leapp/actors/__init__.py", line 335, in run
        self.process(*args)
      File "/usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/systemfacts/actor.py", line 36, in process
        self.produce(systemfacts.get_sysctls_status())
      File "/usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/systemfacts/libraries/systemfacts.py", line 170, in get_sysctls_status
        return SysctlVariablesFacts(sysctl_variables=_get_sysctls())
      File "/usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/systemfacts/libraries/systemfacts.py", line 22, in inner
        return list(f(*args, **kwargs))
      File "/usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/systemfacts/libraries/systemfacts.py", line 152, in _get_sysctls
        name, value = tuple(map(type(var).strip, var.split('=')))
    ValueError: too many values to unpack
    

Environment

  • RHEL 7
  • leapp version 0.13.0-1.el7_9.noarch

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