Bug 468433
| Summary: | Installing Cluster Storage group makes xen the default kernel | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Nate Straz <nstraz> |
| Component: | comps | Assignee: | Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | adaora.onyia, cfeist, dgregor, dlehman, nstraz, rick.hester, rwilliam, syeghiay, tao |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 21:19:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Nate Straz
2008-10-24 18:09:34 UTC
From the ClusterStorage repo's comps file:
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror-PAE</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror-xen</packagereq>
I bet what's happening here is that by selecting this group, you are
automatically getting all those packages selected for installation (because
they're default). Then kmod-cmirror-xen requires the Xen kernel of course,
which pulls that package in, and then you're stuck.
Seems like we're hitting a lot of issues like this right now. I wonder if
there have been changes to the comps files recently.
I went back and reinstall RHEL5.2 with and without Cluster Storage and both come up with only the regular kernel. (In reply to comment #1) > Seems like we're hitting a lot of issues like this right now. I wonder if > there have been changes to the comps files recently. revision 1.24 date: 2008/09/23 14:54:33; author: dgregor; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0 added kmod-cmirror-PAE and kmod-cmirror-xen The problem is that kmod-cmirror-xen is marked as selected by default in the comps file. This pulls in kernel-xen as a dependency. So when the time comes to make sure we have a kernel installed we see that kernel-xen is already selected and therefore do not auto-select the regular kernel. We include the kmod yum plugin to handle the -xen (or PAE or whatever else) variants of kmod packages -- only generic kmod packages should be marked as default. *** Bug 466336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I can make those packages optional. Just to clarify, should all of the following be optional in that group?
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror-PAE</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">kmod-cmirror-xen</packagereq>
They don't need to be optional -- in that case they won't get installed and we'll have another bug. Leave the kmod-cmirror as default and remove the other two completely (kmod-cmirror-xen, kmod-cmirror-PAE). Let yum's kmod plugin deal with kernel variants and associated kmod package selection. Change checked into distill Verified fixed in RHEL5.3-Server-20081029.0. An advisory 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 therefore 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/RHEA-2009-0133.html |