| Summary: | mkbootdisk fails if conf.modules has redundant lines | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | rbh00 |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-08-21 19:56:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
(Later that same day)
A better replacement for line 80 uses the -u option of sort:
ethmodule=`sort -u /etc/conf.modules |
awk '/^alias eth0/ { print $3 }'`
I have verified this does occur on a standard 6.0 install. fixed in mkbootdisk-1.2.1.1. |
My i386 system has two scsi adapters. Perhaps for this reason, the contents of my /etc/conf.modules file has redundant entries. Here is the file's contents: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias eth0 eepro100 alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias eth0 eepro100 alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx Now, mkbootdisk (a shell script) scans this file to set its variable "ethmodule" at line 80: ethmodule=`awk '/^alias eth0/ { print $3 }' \ /etc/conf.modules This results in ethmodule being set to a file with two lines, that is, to "eepro100\neepro100", and that in turn causes script /sbin/mkinitrd to cough out its usage message and fail to do its normal stuff. (At line 91 witheth is set to "$witheth --with $ethmodule" and at line 140 $witheth is one of the arguments to mkinitrd.) To fix: Change the "awk" statement at line 80 to eliminate redundant lines in the conf.modules file: ethmodule=`sort /etc/conf.modules | uniq | \ awk '/^alias eth0/ { print $3 }'` Note: This is the stuff of bug 2405 that I tried and failed to submit to you last Wed Apr 28. Sorry it took me so long to regenerate the bug. Oh and thanks for all your free stuff! Richard