Release Notes

Known issues

Topics:

• Caps Lock key-press is not registered on the Dell PowerEdge iDRAC virtual console

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RHEL 8.3 installer does not automatically locate the source installation repository when only inst.stage2=hd boot option is

used

• The mdmonitor service displays an error during operating system installation

• The output of the systemctl status command displays the status as thawing

• The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as <OUT OF SPEC> for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots

• 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

Caps Lock key-press is not registered on the Dell

PowerEdge iDRAC virtual console

Description:

The Caps Lock key-press is not registered when the Dell PowerEdge iDRAC virtual console is used. The

console displays lowercase letters when the Caps Lock key is enabled.

Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2

Workaround: Do the following:

1. Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-kbd.rules and add the rule:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="leds", ENV{DEVPATH}=="*/input*::capslock",

ATTR{trigger}="kbd-ctrlllock"

2. Run the command: udevadm control --reload-rules

3. Disconnect and reconnect the Dell PowerEdge iDRAC virtual console.

Systems

affected:

All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

Tracking number: 176749

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