Release Notes
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- Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes
- Contents
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New and enhanced in RHEL 7.x release
- Fixes
- The mcelog utility logs 'only decoding architectural errors' message in var/log/messages
- An error message is displayed when the internal SATA optical drive is empty during UEFI boot
- FCoE session is not reestablished after MX9116N switch is rebooted
- Disk drives part of MD RAID are not listed as installation destination by the installer
- Dell EMC OpenManage Storage Services utility fails to reconfigure the virtual disk
- Operating system crashes when twenty DIMMs are connected to the server and the number of I/O operations is high
- Dell EMC Express Flash Enterprise NVMe CD6/CM6 device is not detected by the kernel
- Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash Enterprise NVMe Agnostic (AGN) device is not detected by the operating system
- IO_PAGE_FAULT messages are displayed in dmesg for PCIe Generation 4 devices
- Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash Enterprise NVMe Agnostic (AGN) device causes the system to stop responding
- Transmit and receive statistics are reported as zero by the ip tool for Broadcom BCM57504 adapters
- Dmesg displays error messages when Broadcom BCM57504 25GB is used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8
- Important notes
- Known issues
- Intel E810 NIC interfaces are not functional on AMD Rome CPU based systems
- acpi_pad threads are not spawned as expected when power capping is enabled in iDRAC
- Dell Controlled Turbo feature is not functional
- The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as
for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots - Access Vector Cache (AVC) denial messages are displayed when NVMe disk is hot inserted
- QLogic Gen7 Fibre Channel cards are not detected with in-box drivers
- Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card
- After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat
- System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards
- Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots
- Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN
- iscsiadm output displays STATIC in the iface.bootproto field when the network interface is configured to DHCP
- When system reboots, system stops responding at the end of the reboot process
- NMI watchdog reports CPU soft lockup
- Unable to create or modify namespace for NVDIMM
- Chipset watchdog device is not created when the OS Watchdog Timer option is enabled in BIOS
- Systems with QLogic Cards that are configured with VLAN over Bond fail to shutdown or reboot
- NetworkManager fails to bring up VLAN interface created over Bond interface
- NMI message is displayed on Dell EMC AMD systems with NVMe SSDs
- Booting into OS with the QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 card setup with iscsi offload logs multiple error messages related to iSCSI session
- Kernel panic occurs when FCoE function is enabled in QL41000 series adapters
- Network throughput may not be as expected on Broadcom 25 GB or QLogic 25 GB network cards
- Kernel panic occurs with AMD processors on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- Turbostat displays an input/output error with AMD processor
- qede driver probe fails when NIC+RDMA is enabled NPAR-EP partitions in QL41xxx cards
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 with QLogic QL41xxx rNDC cards ping fails
- SRIOV VFs of Mellanox cards interfaces are named incorrectly
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and 7.5 display an error message related to softhsm tokens
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an error message while searching for a query in Tracker
- NVMe drive model is displayed as unknown in parted
- System Monitor displays incorrect number of CPUs
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation may cause Machine Check Errors
- Caps Lock LED status is always off in CLI
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays incorrect welcome message
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 displays black screen after iSCSI installation using QLogic QL4xxx cards with out-of-box drivers
- Unable to discover iSCSI LUN during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation with Intel X-550 cards
- Unable to shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 when you select Graceful shutdown option or when you press power button on system
- Installer displays an exception when installing on an iSCSI disk using QLogic QL41000 qedi based drivers
- Progress bar is not displayed while copying a file from USB drive to Desktop
- Link flap messages are displayed during the device probe for QL41xxx devices
- ip link/ifconfig displays RX dropped packets for QL41xxx based interfaces
- dmesg displays debug messages for QL41xxx devices
- Drivers available in OEMDRV drive is not installed during the OS installation
- Unable to boot to iSCSI after enabling VLAN
- iSCSI interface is not displayed in Anaconda GUI
- Disabling SRIOV-vfs of Mellanox-ConnectX-4 cards results in terminal hang
- mei_me displays hardware start failed messages
- Intel - Sage Flat - ISCSI LUN is not discovered during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OS installation
- Watchdog timer function did not work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- Recovery is not starting on RAID 01 virtual disk when I/Os are in progress
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 displays an ACPI warning
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 displays a mcelog error message
- IPv6 UEFI PXE installation fails
- Intel x520 FCoE first boot fails with kernel crash
- irqbalance spam messages with banned CPU conflict
- Coretemp driver adds a limited number of cores
- Turbostat displays incorrect information
- Ethtool reports a lower port speed
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 displays an error message for drivers
- Mellanox ConnectX-4 NIC interfaces are named incorrectly
- Unable to read the Base Address Registers address logged in /var/log/messages
- Unable to detect a degraded S130 volume after the reboot
- Unable to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 in the 16th hard drive slot by using unattended installation
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an error message related to network service in var/log/messages
- Unable to assign hot spare in Software RAID configuration when the virtual disk is in use
- ACPI displays warning message when system IO range conflicts
- DWS login fails in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 displays a warning message in dmesg logs
- Invalid naming conventions for the Intel X710 card when NPAR or NPAR-EP is enabled
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an error message in /var/log/messages
- Unable to reboot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 after the successful installation on iSCSI or FC or FCoE
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an unknown netevent message during FCoE boot
- Ethtool offline test for network devices do not restore its previous state
- Installation on iSCSI LUN displays few unknown symbol messages
- NVMe devices are not identified during Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation
- Unable to restart Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 after the successful installation on iSCSI LUN
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 might not boot in the UEFI mode
- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 by using the iDRAC Virtual Media does not resume if the iDRAC network is set to the shared LOM mode
- Kernel panic occurs when OMSA services are started on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- When Virtual Disk is not initialized, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cannot be installed on 4k sector hard drives
- Invalid naming conventions for the ports of Emulex OneConnect OCe14102-UX-D card when NPAR-EP is enabled
- Unable to move soft link .desktop file
- Unable to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, when the Execute Disable option is disabled
- Unable to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 in the UEFI mode
- While adding second slave to bond, it asks for connection type and shows additional connection types
- Loopback device is displayed as unknown in network settings
- Kernel panic on reboot or shutdown when Mellanox Team is setup
- PCIeSSDs report incorrect pciehp messages during boot
- VMM does not displays Windows Server 2012 in drop-down list
- Ethtool link test fails in Offline mode despite the cable being connected to the port
- PXE boot fails with a system crash when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed on local storage and the tftp server has an invalid boot EFI file
- NVMe driver reports I/O error on Surprise Removal or Surprise Insertion
- Reading EEPROM from a Broadcom device via ethtool results in soft lockup
- Error during the first boot on iSCSI disk
- Enabling SR-IOV virtual functions on both Intel and Mellanox cards result in invalid naming conventions for the network devices
- Mellanox card does not display supported link modes as 40G
- Unable to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on a drive with an existing btrfs partition
- syslog displays error Related to network.service
- Unable to move the OpenManage Server Administrator icon anywhere on the desktop
- ras-mc-ctl command displays DIMM labels related error message
- Limitations
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as <OUT
OF SPEC> for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots
Description:
The dmidecode utility displays the Slot Type field of Type 9 record as <OUT OF SPEC> for PCIe
Generation 4 NVMe slots.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and later
Cause: The dmidecode utility does not support the Slot Type value of 0x24 that is defined in System
Management BIOS (SMBIOS) version 3.4.
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515, Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515, Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525, Dell EMC
PowerEdge R7525, and Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525.
Tracking number: 171943
Access Vector Cache (AVC) denial messages are
displayed when NVMe disk is hot inserted
Description: The following Access Vector Cache (AVC) denial messages are displayed when NVMe disk is hot inserted:
type=AVC msg=audit(1592925748.673:212): avc: denied
{ read } for pid=9349 comm="smartd" name="nvme0"
dev="devtmpfs" ino=12595 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsdaemon_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:nvme_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file permissive=0
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and later
Cause: SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon tries to monitor the NVMe drives but gets blocked due to enforced
SELinux policies. This issue is related to SMARTD monitoring /dev/nvme and not related to hotplug
events. After the error messages are displayed, smartd cannot monitor the NVMe devices.
Workaround: It is recommended to use the nvme-cli tool to monitor the NVMe drives.
Tracking number: 169784
QLogic Gen7 Fibre Channel cards are not detected
with in-box drivers
Description:
While using the in-box drivers, QLogic 32-GFC cards are not detected. QLogic 32-GFC card details can
be identified by running the command lspci.
The output of the command is as follows:
Fibre Channel [0c04]: QLogic Corp. ISP2812-based 64/32G Fibre Channel to PCIe Controller [1077:2281]
Vendor ID: 1077
Device ID: 2281
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
Cause: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 in-box drivers are not enabled for QLogic 32-GFC cards.
Workaround: Install out-of-box drivers.
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge yx4x and yx5x servers
Tracking number: 152635
20 Known issues