On 6/9/21 6:52 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> On 6/9/21 12:08 AM, Vít Šesták wrote:
>> Is it OK to see ”cat: broken pipe“ during update of the microcode package?
>> It still boots. Note that the machine has an AMD CPU.
>>
> 
> Not sure. I experienced the same thing. See scriptlet output line 1 below:
> 
> ```
> [...]
> Transaction performed with:
>      Installed     dnf-1.1.10-6.fc25.noarch   @anaconda/rawhide
>      Installed     rpm-4.14.2.1-5.fc25.x86_64 @qubes-dom0-cached
> Packages Altered:
>      Upgraded microcode_ctl-2:2.1-32.qubes1.fc25.x86_64 @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade                3:2.1-33.qubes1.fc25.x86_64 @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded python3-xen-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64     @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade              2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64     @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64             @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade      2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64             @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-hvm-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64         @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade          2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64         @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-hypervisor-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64  @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade                 2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64  @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-libs-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64        @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade           2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64        @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-licenses-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64    @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade               2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64    @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgraded xen-runtime-2001:4.8.5-32.fc25.x86_64     @qubes-dom0-cached
>      Upgrade              2001:4.8.5-34.fc25.x86_64     @qubes-dom0-cached
> Scriptlet output:
>     1 cat: write error: Broken pipe
>     2 Generating grub configuration file ...
>     3 Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt
>     4 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>     5 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>     6 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>     7 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>     8 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64
>     9 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64.img
>    10 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>    11 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>    12 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>    13 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>    14 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64
>    15 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64.img
>    16 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>    17 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.107-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>    18 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64
>    19 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.98-1.fc25.qubes.x86_64.img
>    20 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64
>    21 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.4.88-1.qubes.x86_64.img
>    22 done
> [...]
> 
> ```

This is normal, but it is still a bad user experience.  The culprit
is probably a shell script being invoked via systemd, but without
IgnoreSIGPIPE=false set (default is true).  Please file an issue.
-- 
Demi Marie Obenour
she/her/hers
QubesOS Developer, Invisible Things Lab

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