[Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

Tue Feb 21 15:26:57 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 21/02/12 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 21 February 2012 13:53, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> Sadly this test shows things working as expected when you do it
+>> manually. Lots of things included now in bin/ and a sensible size from
+>> the resulting initrd.
+> 
+> (...)
+> 
+>> And yet again the problem hides itself... :s
+> 
+> Maybe an ordering issue?
+
+Well, that was kinda my thought too, but the kernel itself does have a
+"Requires(Pre): dracut >= 016-1" which really should take care of the
+ordering.
+
+> Though in my mga1 to cauldron upgrade tests, ordering was OK
+> We would need update logs from people actually having the issue.
+> 
+> Although there does be some ordering issues:
+> - plymouth should requires mkinitrd
+
+Oh right yeah.
+
+> - kernels should require makedev & sound-scripts (for
+> /etc/modprobe.d/snd-oss.conf)
+
+Hmm, not sure they should require sound-scripts.... Sound is not
+essential after all. And regardless, snd-oss.conf is an alternatives
+thing anyway these days, so should it also require osspd to get the
+"preferred" alternative? I don't think so.
+
+Can you explain your thinking a bit more on the sound-scripts thing?
+
+EDIT: never mind I see what you mean from the log output below...
+
+Possibly just that sound-scripts actually needs a require on
+libalsa-data which at very least provides the alsa sound profile which
+would make that snd-oss.conf symlink exist....
+
+I'd guess that the link to the "current" sound profile symlink is
+missing and thus that file goes nowhere.... Can you check the ordering
+to see when libalsa-data was installed - I'm guessing later than 224...
+
+
+Also not sure about makedev... how important is that these days with
+udev and the like? Is it just for the /dev/mem issue? If so can we find
+where it's used and factor it out if it's not available? AFAICT it's not
+in dracut, so I'm guessing somewhere in out bootloader scripts?
+
+
+>   (/etc/sysconfig/keyboard does't exit when doing a urpmi --urpmi-root test)
+> 
+> BTW initrd-desktop.img & the like links got blindly updated whereas
+> the initrd was
+> successfully generated or not.
+> We should test for file existence before symlinking IMHO...
+
+Yeah. I still can't actually work out why my home (mga1) system doesn't
+update the -desktop links properly :s
+
+> See logs:
+> 
+>   220/273: plymouth              #############################################
+> /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd: line 2: mkinitrd:
+> command not found
+> warning: %post(plymouth-0.8.4-0.20111214.3.mga2.x86_64) scriptlet
+> failed, exit status 127
+> 
+>   224/273: kernel-desktop-3.2.6-3.mga2
+>                                  #############################################
+> Cannot find a boot loader installed. Only taking care of initrd
+> /dev/mem: No such file or directory
+
+I guess this is why makedev is wanted?
+
+
+> WARNING: Failed to open config file /etc/modprobe.d/snd-oss.conf: No
+> such file or directory
+> WARNING: Failed to open config file /etc/modprobe.d/snd-oss.conf: No
+> such file or directory
+> E: Could not find program "dhclient" required by network.
+
+Hmm, not sure why that's being reported as an error... should just be a
+check to perform to decide whether or not the network module can be
+included IMO... Will ask upstream.
+
+
+> I: *** Including module: dash ***
+> I: *** Including module: i18n ***
+> grep: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: No such file or directory
+> grep: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: No such file or directory
+> grep: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: No such file or directory
+> E: No KEYMAP.
+
+Hmmm, looks like it's missing some -f checks here...
+
+> I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
+> I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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