Bug 454695

Summary: plymouth sets lib incorrectly on ia64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Doug Chapman <dchapman>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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patch to set lib correctly on ia64
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updated patch for setting lib dir correctly on ia64 none

Description Doug Chapman 2008-07-09 19:16:46 UTC 
Description of problem:
plymouth uses this line to set the library directory:

[ -z "$LIB" ] && $(eu-readelf -h /usr/bin/plymouth | grep Class | grep -q ELF64)
&& LIB="lib64" || LIB="lib"


however on ia64 does not have both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib like x86_64 does, the
libs are all under /usr/lib (since we don't have 2 versions).

So, plymouth fails when mkinitrd runs it with:
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd: line 87: cd: /usr/lib64: No such
file or directory
install: cannot stat `/usr/lib64/plymouth/text.so': No such file or directory


suggested patch is attached


We do have a workaround of just removing the plymouth package so it does not get
used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-0.5.0-3.fc9

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on ia64 with the mkinitrd from fc10 (which uses plymouth)
2. make sure plymouth is installed
3. yum install kernel
  
Actual results:
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : kernel                                            [1/1] 
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd: line 87: cd: /usr/lib64: No such
file or directory
install: cannot stat `/usr/lib64/plymouth/text.so': No such file or directory

system is then unbootable


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Doug Chapman 2008-07-09 19:16:46 UTC 
Created attachment 311406 [details]
patch to set lib correctly on ia64
Comment 2 Doug Chapman 2008-07-09 19:35:55 UTC 
Created attachment 311409 [details]
updated patch for setting lib dir correctly on ia64

Oops, found a second place in plymouth with the same bit of code.  This patch
fixes both places I found it trying to use /usr/lib64 on ia64.
Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-07-10 01:39:42 UTC 
If possible, i'd like to limit special casing for this sort of thing.

I commited this patch:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/plymouth/devel/find-right-libdir.patch?rev=1.1

Should be in tomorrows rawhide.  If not, please reopen.
Comment 4 Doug Chapman 2008-07-10 15:19:05 UTC 
Ray,

MUCH better way of solving the problem.  I wasn't too thrilled about my fix either.

thanks for the quick resolution on this.

- Doug