Bug 31046

Summary:	"Error: no module list found!" message just after starting an installation from mageia9-alpha1 iso
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Len Lawrence <tarazed25>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description Len Lawrence 2022-10-29 19:52:21 CEST

Description of problem:
Just after starting the installation this message occurs at the start of "Detecting USB devices" stage: "Error no module list found"
It may be innocuous because the process continues.  It probably refers to the list of modules in the grub2/x86_64 section of the boot folder.  That directory is populated on the running system.  It might be connected with the misidentification of efi/BOOT reported in bug 31034 so might go away if that is addressed successfully.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mageia9-alpha1

How reproducible:
Always on some  hardware.  e.g. on a new ASUS PN51 IntelNUC11 i7 Ryzen machine.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install from the mageia9-alpha1 iso
2. Watch for the message, which may appear only briefly.
3. Continue installation.

Comment 1 Len Lawrence 2022-10-29 20:03:43 CEST

On a different machine, running Cauldron things look different:
$ tree /boot/EFI
/boot/EFI
└── EFI
    ├── BOOT
    │   └── BOOTX64.EFI
    └── mageia
        └── grubx64.efi

No module list.

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2022-10-29 20:53:45 CEST

That looks right.

Thank you for the report. Even if (as it seems) the error message is innocuous, it is disconcerting and better avoided.
"Install from the mageia9-alpha1 iso" : which one, please? Assume Classic.

Assigning to the Tools people for the Installer;
CC'ing Martin for comment in case he can throw any light.

CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 3 Len Lawrence 2022-10-30 11:08:00 CET

Yes - the classic iso, x86_64.

Comment 4 Martin Whitaker 2022-10-30 13:02:57 CET

I think this is because the module list used to select modules to include in the installer stage 1 hasn't been updated to match the current kernel. I don't know the process used to update the list. Running 'make check' in drakx/kernel fails with

% make check
perl -I. modules.pl check > /dev/null
tar: ./all.kernels//all_modules.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Can't locate /usr/bin/merge2pcitable.pl at modules.pl line 128.
make: *** [Makefile:5: check] Error 2

CC'ing tv and tmb for advice.

I'd also like to know why that error message is added by a patch when building drakx-installer-binaries and not present in git.

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb
Summary: Error message just after starting an installation from mageia9-alpha1 iso => "Error: no module list found!" message just after starting an installation from mageia9-alpha1 iso