Bug 129231
Summary: | Newest kernel (Aug 3, 2004) missing advansys module | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | tjfalcone <afalcone> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 2 | CC: | jspaleta, pfrields, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-11-19 04:10:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
tjfalcone
2004-08-05 13:59:36 UTC
FYI, I'm seeing this too (Athlon UP). This has got me too... Is there a reason it isnt in the UP & SMP kernels? The upstream maintainer of the advansys module has marked it BROKEN (which means you can't select it in the kernel config basically) due to datacorruption issues he's chasing out. Okay... this brings up a general problem when modules go missing in update kernels. What should installation of the kernel rpm do in this situation? Right now people who were using the advansys module end up installing the update kernel package and mkinitrd may fail leaving them with no initrd and no grub entry. Is this the best way to handle this situation or should the rpm package installation do something more? On top of that people using up2date who use this module don't see an error message at all with regard to mkinitrd failing during the postinstall of the kernel rpm. From an average user point of view, there is precious little information being reported back telling them a problem occured. Should mkinitrd fail? Should there be more reporint back to the user? -jef reenabled in current errata kernels |