Bug 468761

Summary:	[RHEL5.3] Can't install new kernel on ppc systems with Beta tree
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jeff Burke <jburke>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike Gahagan <mgahagan>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3	CC:	benl, dzickus, lwang, pbunyan
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression, TestBlocker
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	ppc64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://rhts.redhat.com/testlogs/33788/120210/1018315/TESTOUT.log
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	On PPC platform, if you want to yum-update the kernel rpm post-beta, then you need to manually update the yaboot.conf file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2008-10-29 15:27:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Jeff Burke 2008-10-27 20:43:14 UTC

Description of problem:
We were trying to test a new kernel for post beta. When using yum upgrade to update the kernel yaboot.conf was never updated with the new kernel information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.3-Server-20081020.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a ppc system with RHEL5.3-Server-20081020.1
2. Try to install DonZ test kernel 
http://drseuss.usersys.redhat.com/~dzickus/dist-cvs-repos/kernel-2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2
  
Actual results:
***** Start of kernel install test *****
***** Install kernel via yum kernel-2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2.ppc64 *****
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.ppc64 0:2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2 set to be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package      Arch        Version                      Repository          Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel       ppc64       2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2       rhts-custom1        19 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 19 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction

  Installing     : kernel                                            [1/1] 

Installed: kernel.ppc64 0:2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2
Complete!
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.ppc64 0:2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2 set to be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package          Arch      Version                      Repository        Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-devel     ppc64     2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2       rhts-custom1     4.8 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 4.8 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction

  Installing     : kernel-devel                                      [1/1] 

Installed: kernel-devel.ppc64 0:2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2
Complete!
***** Attempting to switch boot kernel to (2.6.18-120.el5dz_test2) *****
image=/vmlinuz-2.6.18-120.el5
# yaboot.conf generated by anaconda

boot=/dev/hda1
init-message=Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server!\nHit <TAB> for boot options

partition=2
timeout=80
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
delay=5
enablecdboot
enableofboot
enablenetboot
nonvram
fstype=raw

image=/vmlinuz-2.6.18-120.el5
	label=linux
	read-only
	initrd=/initrd-2.6.18-120.el5.img
	root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
	append="console=hvc0"

***** End of kernel install test *****
4831414
/distribution/kernelinstall/rhts-reboot result: PASS
   metric: 0
   Log: /tmp/tmp.FL2816
/4831530
distribution/kernelinstall/kernel-2.6.18-120.el5 result: FAIL
   metric: 1
   Log: /tmp/tmp.FL2816
   DMesg: /tmp/dmesg.log

Expected results:
yaboot.conf should have been updated.

Additional info:
If I run this test with the 0814.0 it works fine.
If I use the 1020.1 beta tree it fails.

Comment 1 Linda Wang 2008-10-27 20:59:44 UTC

"possible" related fix that may have caused this issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426992

just fyi..

Comment 2 Linda Wang 2008-10-28 12:56:25 UTC

Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
On PPC platform, if you want to yum-update the kernel rpm post-beta, then you need to manually update the yaboot.conf file.

Comment 3 Peter Jones 2008-10-29 15:27:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 466848 ***