Release Notes

Driver dependency mismatch errors reported while

installing out-of-box drivers on Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 8.x

Description: Driver dependency mismatch errors are reported when inst.dd installation methods (flash drive, driver

package, HTTP, NFS, FTP) are used to install the out-of-box (OOB) drivers during operating system

installation. The dependency errors are not observed after the initial installation as the operating system

will use the out-of-box (OOB) drivers. The issue is industry wide and is not specific to Dell EMC

PowerEdge servers.

Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later

Workaround: Block the installation of the inbox versions of the OOB drivers.

Systems

affected:

Dell EMC PowerEdge yx4x and yx5x servers

Tracking number: 176624

Dmesg displays Integrity Measurement Architecture

(IMA) driver related-messages during system boot

Description:

Dmesg displays the following IMA driver related messages during system boot when the TPM 2.0 chip is

enabled with a SHA-256 algorithm:

ima: Allocated hash algorithm: sha1

ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip

Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 and later

Cause: The Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) driver currently supports the SHA-1 algorithm only.

Solution: Enable SHA-1 as the TPM encryption algorithm only if IMA functionality is required. Otherwise, ignore

these messages and continue using SHA-256 as the TPM encryption algorithm. The error messages do

not indicate any failure with the functionality of TPM2.0. For more information, see Red Hat Knowledge

Base article 5026541.

Systems

affected:

Dell EMC PowerEdge yx4x and yx5x servers

Tracking number: 165260

Dmesg displays TPM and nvdimm related-messages in

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

Description:

When Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8.1 is booted with the TPM 2.0 chip enabled, dmesg displays the

following messages in var/log/message:

No TPM handle discovered.

failed to open file /etc/ndctl/keys/nvdimm-master.blob: No such file or