[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

Sat Apr 7 20:09:23 CEST 2012

2012/4/7 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> 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...
+
+Yes, that's what I wanted to see the listing for.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+