Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Release Notes
- Contents
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New and enhanced in RHEL 8 release
- Important notes
- Fixes
- The mcelog utility logs 'only decoding architectural errors' message in var/log/messages
- 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
- Guest VMs with SRIOV VFs assigned take a long time to power on, and libvirt related errors are observed
- Dmesg displays Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) driver related-messages during system boot
- After every reboot, the network interface name changes
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8 installation wizard creates a duplicate bonding interface
- Servers with the AMD Rome processor display a CCP initialization failure message in dmesg
- PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot plugs
- Operating system enters the dracut shell during boot
- System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards
- After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat
- Updating NVMe firmware using the nvme-cli utility displays an error in dmesg
- Fatal error BDF 02:00.0 is detected with BCM574xx NICs
- NVMe devices are not detected after hot-plugging
- Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card
- Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots
- Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN
- When booting the system from iSCSI with Mellanox CX-4 and CX-5 adapters, the system reports csum failure message
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel panic is observed due to fatal hardware error
- Known issues
- Operating system crashes on systems with NVIDIA GPGPUs
- Dmesg and /var/log/messages display AMD-Vi related messages
- The status of the NetworkManager service may be inactive when RHEL 8.3 is rebooted
- Operating system crashes on AMD Rome CPU-based systems and with Intel E810 NIC
- The lvcreate command requests a response from the user when -wipesignature -yes parameters are passed
- The mdmonitor service displays an error during operating system installation
- The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as
for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots - NetworkManager may restart unexpectedly when creating greater than 256 VLAN devices configured with DHCP IP
- FCoE session is not reestablished after MX9116N switch is rebooted
- Dmesg shows drm related call trace in RHEL 8.3
- Dmesg displays error messages when NVMe device is surprise removed
- Status of the RAID 0 logical volume is displayed as Available when one of the members of the RAID array is surprise removed
- /proc/mdstat and mdadm -D commands display incorrect statuses when two NVMe devices are surprise removed from a RAID 5 MD array
- Dell Controlled Turbo feature is not functional
- Caps Lock key-press is not registered on the Dell PowerEdge iDRAC virtual console
- RHEL 8.3 installer does not automatically locate the source installation repository when only inst.stage2=hd boot option is used
- The output of the systemctl status command displays the status as thawing
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) error messages displayed in dmesg
- Drivers available in OEMDRV drive are not installed during the operating system installation
- The Mellanox IB devices are listed under an incorrect device category on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- The lspci utility is unable to read Vital Product Data (VPD) from QLogic QLE2692 adapter
- Driver dependency mismatch errors reported while installing out-of-box drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x
- Dmesg displays TPM and nvdimm related-messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
- Link Up message is observed when the NVMe device slot is powered off and the device is unplugged
- Mellanox InfiniBand adapters are listed in Bluetooth
- 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
- Unable to shut down RHEL 8 when you select Graceful shutdown option or when you press power button on the server
- RHEL 8 does not discover FCoE LUNs connected over Broadcom BCM57XXX NICs
- iSCSI LUN not discovered during RHEL 8 installation
- RHEL 8 installation fails on systems with Emulex OneConnect card
- Switching between runlevels fails
- Limitations
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge systems which support Nvidia GPGPUs
Tracking number: 189163
Dmesg and /var/log/messages display AMD-Vi related
messages
Description:
Dmesg and /var/log/messages display the following messages on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 256
core CPUs and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash Enterprise NVMe Agnostic (AGN) device or Dell EMC
Express Flash Enterprise NVMe CD6 or Dell EMC Express Flash Enterprise NVMe CM6 device:
AMD-Vi: Failed to allocate IRTE
The message indicates that only a total of 255 IO queues are enabled instead of 256.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 and later
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525, Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525, and Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525.
Tracking number: 171631
The status of the NetworkManager service may be
inactive when RHEL 8.3 is rebooted
Description:
The status of the NetworkManager service may be inactive when the operating system is rebooted. The
issue is observed when the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) package is installed on the operating system.
The command systemctl status NetworkManager can be used to check the status of the service.
For more information, see Red Hat Enterprise Linux Knowledge Base article 5394191.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
Workaround: Disable the pmlogger.service using the following command:
#sudo systemctl disable pmlogger.service
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 185625
Operating system crashes on AMD Rome CPU-based
systems and with Intel E810 NIC
Description:
Operating system crashes when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 on AMD Rome CPU based
systems and with Intel E810 NIC if the system has 256 logical cpus.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
Workaround: Pass nr_cpus=255 kernel command line parameter during and after installation. For more information, see
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Knowledge Base article 5597881.
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525, Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525, and Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525.
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