RH134 - Lab 10.7 - vim went missing on serverb

[Tracy_Baker]

So I'm working on updated my course content for v9.3 before I present it to my students this fall. To do so, I'm doing all the labs.

During Lab 10.7 (Control the Boot Process), one must fix an issue in /etc/fstab that exists on serverb. Usually, vim is used to do this.

However, when I was doing did the lab, I found that vim was inexplicably missing. Instead, I used nano to complete the lab.

After running the finish script, I went back to serverb to double check. Here's what I found:

Trying to run vim:

Using locate to find the vim binary (which says it found it):

Trying to run the vim using the absolute path:

At this point, I ran updatedb and the locate was again used to find the binary - vim, and all its other files, no longer shows up:

I went ahead and reinstalled vim, so it works now.

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I used vim on lab 7.5 (manage basic storage) and 8.5 (manage storage stack).

I did not use it on 9.5 (access network-attached storage) - I used echo and redirection on that lab.

I want to be very clear about something: at no time did I uninstall vim.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Tracy_Baker just to be clear , we are talking about RH124 course v9.3 chapter 10 section 7 lab ?

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Tracy_Baker I think you are talking about RH134 v9.3 ch10s07 ( control the boot process lab ) but I can see vim is there in serverb :

Did I get your issue correctly ?

[Tracy_Baker]

Oops... Yes RH134

So, yes, as you say: RH134 v9.3 ch10s07

vim went missing between the as seen in my screen shots. I've reinstalled it (dnf install vim) and it works. I also guess that if I were to destroy and recreate the lab, it'd probably be there.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

You are right @Tracy_Baker ! May be it got removed due to some other previous lab work ? Not sure but it is weird.

[Tracy_Baker]

There's nothing before then that deals with packages (that's a RH124 topic) or anything - that I'm aware of - that has anything to do with installing or removing vim.

So, yes, it was incredibly odd.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Tracy_Baker if you face this again please let me know, we will try to investigate in your lab.