[RHEL 7] Cast the blame appropriately when the kernel refuses efivars changes.

[Peter Jones]

There's nothing anaconda can do if the underlying API does not work, so
explain in the traceback that this isn't anaconda's fault.

Related: rhbz#959866
Related: rhbz#1009680

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones 
---
 pyanaconda/bootloader.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyanaconda/bootloader.py b/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
index eea75ab..c313b6a 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
@@ -1679,7 +1679,7 @@ class EFIGRUB(GRUB2):
                 rc = self.efibootmgr("-b", slot_id, "-B",
                                      root=ROOT_PATH)
                 if rc:
-                    raise BootLoaderError("failed to remove old efi boot entry")
+                    raise BootLoaderError("failed to remove old efi boot entry.  This is most likely a kernel bug.")

@property
     def efi_dir_as_efifs_dir(self):
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ class EFIGRUB(GRUB2):
                              self.efi_dir_as_efifs_dir + "\shim.efi",
                              root=ROOT_PATH)
         if rc:
-            raise BootLoaderError("failed to set new efi boot target")
+            raise BootLoaderError("failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel bug.")

def install(self):
         if not flags.leavebootorder:

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 11:39 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> There's nothing anaconda can do if the underlying API does not work, so
> explain in the traceback that this isn't anaconda's fault.
>
> Related: rhbz#959866
> Related: rhbz#1009680
> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones
>
> pyanaconda/bootloader.py | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/pyanaconda/bootloader.py b/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
> index eea75ab..c313b6a 100644
> --- a/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
> +++ b/pyanaconda/bootloader.py
> @@ -1679,7 +1679,7 @@ class EFIGRUB(GRUB2):
>                  rc = self.efibootmgr("-b", slot_id, "-B",
>                                       root=ROOT_PATH)
>                  if rc:
>                raise BootLoaderError("failed to remove old efi boot entry")
>                raise BootLoaderError("failed to remove old efi boot entry.  This is most likely a kernel bug.")
>
> @property
>    def efi_dir_as_efifs_dir(self):
>
> @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ class EFIGRUB(GRUB2):
>                               self.efi_dir_as_efifs_dir + "\shim.efi",
>                               root=ROOT_PATH)
>          if rc:
>        raise BootLoaderError("failed to set new efi boot target")
>        raise BootLoaderError("failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel bug.")
>
> def install(self):
>        if not flags.leavebootorder:

ACK.