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

Wed Apr 4 11:22:26 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 04/04/12 01:36 did gyre and gimble:
+> 04.04.2012 03:09, Anssi Hannula kirjoitti:
+>> 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...
+> 
+> Actually... it would be my recentish change/fix in
+> /usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw in which $foo.img is
+> now replaced with
+> # gzip > $foo.img.tmp
+> # mv -f $foo.img.tmp $foo.img
+> while it previously was a direct
+> # gzip > $foo.img
+> 
+> I've now added a "readlink -f" in the beginning of the script so that it
+> will operate on the symlink target directly, in bootsplash-3.3.8. Thanks
+> for noticing this.
+
+No worries.
+
+As a followup question, do you think it'll end up regenerating some
+initrd's several times?
+
+e.g. I have two symlinks, initrd.img and initrd-desktop.img both
+pointing to the same initrd.
+
+Will this ultimately get regenerated three times, two of which are
+obviously redundant?
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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