[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

Sat Apr 7 19:59:19 CEST 2012

On 04/07/2012 12:43 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2012/4/7 imnotpc<imnotpc at rock3d.net>:
+>> On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>>> On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
+>>>> I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the grub
+>>>> menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The result is that
+>>>> the original kernel remains the default and new kernels not used. Most of my
+>>>> systems are only accessed through ssh so I had no idea the new kernels
+>>>> weren't being used and this only came to my attention today when another
+>>>> update, probably dbus, broke the old kernel and hung all my boxes during
+>>>> reboot.
+>>>>
+>>>> I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that it
+>>>> would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but this may also
+>>>> be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a bug or intended
+>>>> behavior?
+>>>>
+>>> Not so.  The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which are
+>>> version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to point to the
+>>> new kernel.  The entry tacked on to the end uses the new versoins by name,
+>>> and is there so that after the next new kernel comes along you'll have an
+>>> entry to boot this one if you need to.
+>>
+>> So the first and last menu entry are the same most recent version? Then this
+>> is probably a bug since the symlink entry won't boot but the entry at the
+>> bottom that lists the version by name boots fine.
+> Then something went wrong during installation of the new kernel. Could
+> you please show the output of
+>
+> $ ls -l /boot
+>
+I don't think it effects this output, but just so you know I deleted 
+most of the unused entries from the grub menu and moved the most recent 
+version to the top so it would boot again if there was a power failure. 
+The curious thing is I expected vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 to be here 
+but it isn't. This box has received every update that has come out.
+
+[root at Cedar1 jalaramie]# ls -l /boot
+total 20792
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Apr  7 08:14 boot.backup.sda
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Apr  7 08:17 config -> 
+config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  135041 Feb 16 09:36 config-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  136931 Apr  4 06:15 config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Mar 21 19:03 dracut/
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  537088 Apr  3 14:22 gfxmenu*
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Apr  7 08:14 grub/
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5715971 Apr  3 14:22 initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5733762 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-desktop.img -> 
+initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  164560 Feb 16 09:36 symvers-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.xz
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  167956 Apr  4 06:15 symvers-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.xz
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:38 System.map -> 
+System.map-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1666973 Feb 16 09:36 System.map-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1688349 Apr  4 06:15 System.map-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Apr  5 07:32 vmlinuz -> 
+vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2645840 Feb 16 09:36 vmlinuz-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2663648 Apr  4 06:15 vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Apr  5 07:32 vmlinuz-desktop -> 
+vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+
+I checked this different box and it has entries for 
+vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 and it also boots fine from the symlink entry:
+
+  [root at Admin1 jalaramie]# ls -l /boot
+total 30272
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Apr  7 12:31 boot.backup.hdb
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Mar 23 12:37 boot.backup.sda
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Mar 23 12:10 boot.backup.sdb
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Apr  7 13:33 config -> 
+config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  129667 Apr  2 20:00 config-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  129667 Apr  4 05:45 config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Mar 21 19:03 dracut/
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  537088 Apr  3 13:57 gfxmenu*
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Apr  7 12:31 grub/
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6735357 Apr  5 10:59 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2.img
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6733158 Apr  5 10:59 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-desktop.img -> 
+initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:32 initrd.img -> 
+initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6569876 Apr  3 13:57 initrd.img.old
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  167668 Apr  2 20:00 symvers-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2.xz
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  167668 Apr  4 05:45 symvers-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.xz
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:37 System.map -> 
+System.map-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2165824 Apr  2 20:00 System.map-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2165824 Apr  4 05:45 System.map-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Apr  5 07:32 vmlinuz -> 
+vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2731232 Apr  2 20:00 vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2731072 Apr  4 05:45 vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Apr  5 07:32 vmlinuz-desktop -> 
+vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
+
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