Bug 494008

Summary:	mkinitrd silently fails if an image already exists
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nathanael Noblet <nathanael>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	hdegoede, katzj, pjones, wtogami
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Description Nathanael Noblet 2009-04-03 17:19:31 UTC

Description of problem:

When building a new image (for example if the mobo has been replaced and new sata /scsi controller needs to be in the image). You run mkinitrd, however if the file exists, mkinitrd just quits, no error message

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F10 so far.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkinitrd /boot/initrd-KERNEL_VERSION.img KERNEL_VERSION
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Actual results:
Prompt is returned

Expected results:
An error message stating that since an image exists already mkinitrd has exited.

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Comment 1 Nathanael Noblet 2009-04-03 17:26:03 UTC

sorry - I had used an f9 version...