[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

Sat Apr 7 20:07:25 CEST 2012

07.04.2012 20:59, imnotpc skrev:
+> 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
+
+You are missing the symlink initrd.img -> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
+
+that is used on default setups...
+
+--
+Thomas
+