[Mageia-dev] Boot borked cause procfs :((

Tue Jan 8 14:01:47 CET 2013

Colin Guthrie skrev 8.1.2013 14:28:
+> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 08/01/13 12:11 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hi...
+>>
+>> After updating cauldron to latest packages, I rebuilt manually the boot
+>> initrd with dracut -f. After that, the system does not boot:
+>>
+>> mount: /proc: filesystem mounted, but mount(8) failed: No such file or
+>> directory
+>> Cannot mount proc on /proc! Compile the kernel with CONFIG_PROC_FS!
+>>
+>> And then a kernel panic...
+>>
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8614
+
+
+>> I think that I have boxes that boot because I have not rebuilt the initrd,
+>> but I don't dare to try one other :).
+>>
+>> Any ideas o how to debug/fix this ?
+>
+> I heard this is due to new util-linux. My initrd was from 3rd Jan, but
+> util-linux installed on 5th Jan. I've regenerated my initrd so will
+> reboot sometime today to see if it now breaks with the new version of mount.
+>
+
+It will.
+
+I hope you have a backup initrd to use.
+
+
+ > We maybe need to patch mount? I don't think it's really the kernel
+> that's at fault here.
+
+I will investigte it tonight..
+
+--
+Thomas
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