Bug 467822

Summary: two grub entries get written
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dave Jones <davej>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: aconway, anaconda-maint-list, dcantrell, ffesti, jnovy, pfrields, pmatilai
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Description Dave Jones 2008-10-21 03:28:46 UTC 
this has been bugging me for months, but no-one seems to have fixed it, so I figure it's worth reporting.

After install, there are two grub entries.
"Fedora" and "Fedora-base".  Both of which are identical.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-10-21 13:07:44 UTC 
What type of install is this with?  And can you attach 'rpm -q --whatprovides kernel', /root/install.log and /var/log/anaconda.log?
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2008-10-21 17:13:15 UTC 
install was pxe & nfs.

This is disturbing ...

$ rpm -q --whatprovides kernel
kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64

logs to follow..
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-10-21 17:14:14 UTC 
Created attachment 321044 [details]
anaconda log
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2008-10-21 17:15:10 UTC 
Created attachment 321047 [details]
install.log
Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2008-10-21 17:23:50 UTC 
That is interesting and not what I'd expect.  Panu -- any thoughts on what would be causing multiple entries in the rpmdb?
Comment 6 Panu Matilainen 2008-10-22 05:42:22 UTC 
From the above install.log it seems to be installed twice, which sorta explains:
[pmatilai@localhost ~]$ grep kernel-2 /tmp/install.log 
Installing kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64
Installing kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64

It gets added to the transaction twice, but that rpm doesn't filter it out the duplicate is of course an rpm bug. Easily reproduced on command line too, this only happens for "pure" install, not upgrade:

[root@localhost x86_64]# rpm -Uvh test-2-1.x86_64.rpm test-2-1.x86_64.rpm 
warning: package test = 2-1 was already added, skipping test < 2-1
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:test                   ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost x86_64]# rpm -e test
[root@localhost x86_64]# rpm -ivh test-2-1.x86_64.rpm test-2-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:test                   ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:test                   ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost x86_64]#

Oops :) Seems to happen on both 4.4.2.x and 4.6.x... will fix.
Comment 7 Panu Matilainen 2008-10-22 07:22:57 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide now (rpm-4.6.0-0.rc1.3)

Anaconda adding the same package twice to transaction is kinda wrong anyway, but rpm now handles this corretly (warns and skips).
Comment 8 Alan Conway 2009-01-07 22:34:33 UTC 
*** Bug 479072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***