[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. (initrd.img desymlinkified)

Wed Apr 4 02:09:34 CEST 2012

03.04.2012 16:41, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> With a memory of the infamous "initrd killer" problem that is still
+> lurking in the background somewhere, something related to theme updates
+> is messing things up:
+> 
+> e.g. see the before and after listings for my /boot
+> 
+> 
+> [colin at jimmy code (master)]$ ll /boot
+> total 39784
+[...]
+> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  3 09:22 initrd.img ->
+> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2.img
+[...]
+
+> 
+> After:
+> 
+> [colin at jimmy code (master)]$ ll /boot
+[...]
+> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7556648 Apr  3 14:33 initrd.img
+[...]
+
+Reproduced:
+
+root      9723  0.0  0.0  25760  1372 pts/11   S+   03:02   0:00  |
+              \_ /bin/sh /usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/switch-themes
+Mageia-Default
+root      9745  0.2  0.2  93496 20724 pts/11   S+   03:02   0:00  |
+                  \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/bootloader-config --action
+update-splash
+root     30133  0.0  0.0  25760  1312 pts/11   S+   03:06   0:00  |
+                      \_ /bin/sh
+/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash /boot/initrd.img 800
+root     30143  0.0  0.0  25760  1340 pts/11   S+   03:06   0:00  |
+                          \_ /bin/sh
+/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw /boot/initrd.img
+Mageia-Default
+
+=> bork
+
+So it seems like some recent change in DrakX which causes it to call
+make-boot-splash even for /boot/initrd.img...
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+