[Mageia-dev] [ATT] broken initramfs generation

Mon Dec 19 06:18:07 CET 2011

Hi all!
+
+dracut-015-5.mga2 which was uploaded some 8 hours ago breaks initramfs
+generation due to a path change and issues in 'plymouth' and
+'bootsplash' backages.
+
+If you've configured your bootloader configuration with MCC or installed
+new kernels with this version of dracut installed (even if you've later
+upgraded), you may have had one or more of your initramfs files
+truncated, which will cause a boot failure.
+
+You can check if you are affected by using e.g. this command to print
+suspiciously small initramfs files:
+  find /boot/initrd*.img -size -1M -type f
+
+If that is the case, you should wait without rebooting until
+- plymouth-scripts-0.8.4-0.20111214.2.mga2
+- bootsplash-3.3.6-1.mga2
+are available and installed on your system, and then run:
+  bootloader-config --action rebuild-initrds
+
+After that please double-check with the 'find' command that no truncated
+iniramfs files exist. If there are any, please report it.
+
+Also, if you don't have truncated files but have dracut-015.5.mga2,
+please upgrade to the above versions ASAP to prevent truncations from
+happening in the future.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+