[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

[imnotpc]

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