Bug 113809
| Summary: | depmod is not run for kernel-2.4.21-9.EL from Quaterly Update #1 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ernie Petrides <petrides> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | djuran, goeran, petrides, riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-12 01:08:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The problem is that the kernel-unsupported package runs depmod for the worng kernel, i.e. the one that is running while the package is installed. And depmod in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit won't do any good since it uses the -A flag and the timestanps for the modules will be as they were in the rpm, i.e. quite old. To remedy this problem, the %post script of the kernel-unsupported (and kernel-smp-usupported) packages should be modified to do depmod for the version being installed. Thank you for such a clear bug report and analysis. A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U2 patch pool, and it will first be available (internally at Red Hat) in kernel version 2.4.21-11.EL. An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: After installing kernel-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm and kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm from RHES3 Quarterly Update #1 I rebooted my system and noticed that the HiSax ISDN driver could not be found during system startup. Manually running depmod -a and rebooting fixed the problem. So it seems to me that when rc.sysinit runs depmod it ignores the modules from the unsupported subdir. The postinstall script from kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL runs depmod -ae but without specifying the kernel version. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update to kernel-(unsupported)-2.4.21-9.EL 2. 3. Additional info: