Error: no symbol table on CentOS 7.5

[Lin Shuicheng]

Title
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There is error message "no symbol table" when boot controller node.
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Brief Description
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The issue occur in centos75 feature branch after CentOS7.5 upgrade.

When boot controller node, below message will show. And it will auto continue boot after around 8 seconds.
"
Error: no symbol table.
Press any key to continue…
"
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Steps to Reproduce
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boot controller node with ISO build from centos75 feature branch
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Expected behavior
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No error message during boot
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Actual Behavior
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"
Error: no symbol table.
Press any key to continue…
"
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Reproducibility
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100%, both with bare metal and virtual machine environment.
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[Austin Sun (sunausti)]

it should be same issue as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1620678 , we have to downgrade binutils back to solve this issue.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: f/centos75
Review: https://review.openstack.org/602241

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/602241
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/stx-tools/commit/?id=c821429b3a7137af0739160effaac9614fbf5a9d
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: f/centos75

commit c821429b3a7137af0739160effaac9614fbf5a9d
Author: Sun Austin <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 13 14:18:17 2018 +0800

    Revert binutils back to 2.25 version for CentOS7.5 to
    solve "Error: no symbol table" issue

    This commit fixes:

    The system show "“Error: no symbol table.
    Press any key to continue…” when booting

    Closes-Bug: 1792257

    Change-Id: I49d78bc6b5c23da914a2095737959cf05dccc6c0
    Signed-off-by: Sun Austin <email address hidden>

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: f/centos75
Review: https://review.openstack.org/603889

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Dean Troyer (<email address hidden>) on branch: f/centos75
Review: https://review.openstack.org/603889

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/603919

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/603919
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/stx-tools/commit/?id=723c1054ef53116b5f40f5c55b56c324ffed6a98
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit be08cc67d24e09690aa2470c2b61d5939e5e0c93
Author: slin14 <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 20 06:53:34 2018 +0800

    add back rdma package

    story: 2003389
    Task: 24556

    It is removed when upgrade rpm package to CentOS 7.5 version.
    Add it back to keep it the same as before.
    For rdma-core package, it could be generated by src rpm, so no need to have rpm package here.

    Change-Id: Ia6cced5362e9a844ecaa92e40c8f913f2206c337
    Signed-off-by: slin14 <email address hidden>

commit c821429b3a7137af0739160effaac9614fbf5a9d
Author: Sun Austin <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 13 14:18:17 2018 +0800

    Revert binutils back to 2.25 version for CentOS7.5 to
    solve "Error: no symbol table" issue

    This commit fixes:

    The system show "“Error: no symbol table.
    Press any key to continue…” when booting

    Closes-Bug: 1792257

    Change-Id: I49d78bc6b5c23da914a2095737959cf05dccc6c0
    Signed-off-by: Sun Austin <email address hidden>

commit 9c016c3e49bfcc50e20d88b082274448fa958186
Author: slin14 <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 12 20:58:15 2018 +0800

    Clean rpm from repo list which could be generated by src rpm

    Story: 2003435
    Task: 24631

    below rpm is still kept due to build environment need it:
    bash, python, systemd, rpm, centos-release, kernel-header,
    openssh, openldap, libuuid, libmount, libblbkid, audit, pam,
    shadow-utils, setup, nfs-utils, net-tools

    Change-Id: I7439842feb9419492dd6a3adde79c5afe646f63d
    Signed-off-by: slin14 <email address hidden>

commit 1b1ba24895f0bb046ba75e4ff3524bab20cff1f9
Author: slin14 <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 11 01:21:06 2018 +0800

    upgrade kernel src rpm to CentOS7.5 3.10.0-862.11.6 version

    Story: 2003596
    Task: 24917

    kernel version is upgraded from 862.6.3 to 862.11.6

    Change-Id: If2efecc9510617cae5645ca07732620a40b2ebed
    Signed-off-by: slin14 <email address hidden>

commit 4a1e46ac2d4ed4f929e176661968055bc3a500a3
Author: zhipengl <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Sep 10 22:23:51 2018 +0800

    upgrade lighttpd download lst to CentOS 7.5 version

    Story: 2003389
    Task: 24482

    Change-Id: I5e2a84d3acf6a40fcb6ab5b8e8337feb899b52e1
    Signed-off-by: zhipengl <email address hidden>

commit ab5070e9a5b9962fdd3d5932e86c8d4adec7ea75
Author: zhipengl <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 7 00:54:44 2018 +0800

    CentOS 7.5 upgrade for puppet-haproxy package.

    This reverts commit 9d5971d602bde73481e7085530c8686052724739.
    We have found root cause for config_controller failing at step 6 and fix it.

    Story: 2003389
    Task: 24504

    Change-Id: I7fdc1b81a96ac1c26fd8aa2a4754c021499cd3a9

commit 9e9af2501518c9a5d9be37da72d68bcaaf428ac8
Author: slin14 <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 7 21:51:24 2018 +0800

    Fix anaconda build dependency failure issue

    Story: 2003389
    ...