After first bootup, the FEATURE table is not present in CONFIG_DB

[AkhileshSamineni]

Issue : After first bootup, the FEATURE table is not present in CONFIG_DB

root@sonic:/home/admin# sonic-db-cli CONFIG_DB keys *FEAT*

root@sonic:/home/admin#

(With Fix from PR - sonic-net/sonic-utilities#1232)
root@sonic:/home/admin# config feature state nat enabled
Feature 'nat' doesn't exist
root@sonic:/home/admin#

And then, If I do 'cold reboot' or 'config reload', the FEATURE table gets added to CONFIG_DB.

After reboot/config-reload,

root@sonic:/home/admin# sonic-db-cli CONFIG_DB keys *FEAT*
FEATURE|nat
FEATURE|bgp
FEATURE|syncd
FEATURE|sflow
FEATURE|telemetry
FEATURE|snmp
FEATURE|pmon
FEATURE|swss
FEATURE|mgmt-framework
FEATURE|database
FEATURE|radv
FEATURE|lldp
FEATURE|teamd
FEATURE|dhcp_relay
root@sonic:/home/admin#

Rootcause:

While first boot up, the init_cfg.json file (contains FEATURE table) contents are not getting written to CONFIG_DB.
And later 'cold reboot' or 'config reload', init_cfg.json file contents are writing to CONFIG_DB.

Fix : Added changes to do "config reload" instead of "load config" in config-setup script, as it handles the config_db contents at first bootup.
'config reload' script takes care of writing 'init_cfg.json' file to CONFIG_DB.

Signed-off-by: Akhilesh Samineni [email protected]

[AkhileshSamineni]

@jleveque @lguohan Please review the changes.

[abdosi]

@AkhileshSamineni what is the sequence for this issue to come ? Below file always make sure Feature Table is there in config db

https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/build_templates/init_cfg.json.j2

[AkhileshSamineni]

@AkhileshSamineni what is the sequence for this issue to come ? Below file always make sure Feature Table is there in config db

https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/build_templates/init_cfg.json.j2

@abdosi
Issue is seen when we do "onie-install" (first boot-up).
The "FEATURE" table is present in below file, but it doesn't make sure that the "FEATURE" table is written to config_db.
https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/build_templates/init_cfg.json.j2

At the time of reboot process, the init_cfg.json file contents are written to config_db only when config_db.json file is present.
Please check here - https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/build_templates/docker_image_ctl.j2#L122

So at time of onie-install, config_db.json file is not present and there by "FEATURE" table is not getting written to config_db.
At first boot-up process, the "config_db.json" file is generated at step - https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/image_config/config-setup/config-setup#L240

And here https://github.com/Azure/sonic-buildimage/blob/master/files/image_config/config-setup/config-setup#L252, load_config() is not writing the init_cfg.json file contents to config_db.
so all the init_cfg.json file contents are missing in config_db after first boot-up (onie-install) is done.

Fix for this to replace the load_config() with reload_configdb(), where 'config reload' script takes care of writing init_cfg.json file contents to config_db.
Please check here - https://github.com/Azure/sonic-utilities/blob/master/config/main.py#L1095

[ben-gale]

@abdosi - are you ready to approve pls?

[abdosi]

LGTM

[prsunny]

I think we have a dependency on this CONFIG_DB_INITIALIZED elsewhere. Do we not need this?

[abdosi]

@prsunny this is done here: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-utilities/blob/master/config/main.py#L1106