leapp upgrade fails with KeyError on persistentnetnamesconfig/actor.py
Danila Vershinin
Operating System and Software
Rocky Linux 8
leapp
observed on VirtualBox (unsupported hypervisor)
Problem
While attempting an upgrade from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8 via leapp, the persistentnetnamesconfig actor fails with a KeyError
How to Fix
Change the network drivers being used on the interfaces to a driver that is available on both CentOS 7 and Rocky Linux 8
Origin of the Problem
This issue can be caused when some network drivers are used on CentOS 7 which are not available on Rocky Linux 8
Specifically, this has been seen when utilizing the pcnet32 driver on networking interfaces, which was removed on Rocky Linux 8
Diagnostic Steps
The end of the traceback output will normally look like the following output, with the ’00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’ reflecting the MAC address of one of your networking interfaces:
