Wednesday Quickie: Dracut error after updating to CentOS 7.7Failed to install module libnvdimmvmxnet3

  I apologize for the out of order quickie.  If you noticed, yes there is supposed to be a movie review coming up.  However, there are occasions when a situation arises where I want to get an announcement out that cannot wait for the normal subject slot to come around again.  In this case I upgraded my CentOS 7.6 to 7.7 this morning and received this error.

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@cr-web2.catracing.org (Thu 2019-09-19 04:49:17 KST):

dracut[61287]: Failed to install module libnvdimmvmxnet3

  Here is a blog that deals with and addresses the issue (It looks like this may be a VMWARE issue.). As I do not run CentOS on bare metal hardware, I cannot test to see if this is the case.

http://teridon73.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel77-dracut-failed-to-install-module.html

  These steps worked for me, there has been no official response from the folks at Redhat yet, if you wish to wait for the “official” fix.  I would perform these steps on a ‘test’ server before modifying files on a production server, or make sure you have a working backup of your server or virtual machine! I will not be responsible for any downtime or loss of data you may experience from executing the following steps.

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