Bug 52889

Summary: grubby makes kernel upgrade segfault in %post
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3CC: ewt, katzj, notting
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My grub.conf after upgrade none

Description Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-08-30 15:21:25 UTC
Upgrading from 2.4.7-5 to 2.4.7-6 caused grubby to segfault in kernel post.


("Minnesegmentsfeil" == "Segmentation Fault")

[root@halden RPMS]# rpm -Fvh kernel*i686*
Forbereder...               ########################################### [100%] 
  1:kernel           ########################################### [50%]
   2:kernel-smp             ########################################### [100%]
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 23:  7994 Minnesegmentsfeil       /sbin/grubby
--add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-$version $INITRD --copy-default --title "Red Hat
Linux ($version)"
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 11:  8009 Minnesegmentsfeil       /sbin/grubby
--remove-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-$version
[root@halden RPMS]# ls -l kernel*i686*
-rw-r--r--    5 root     root      9706521 aug 29 11:51 kernel-2.4.7-6.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root     11284061 aug 29 11:54
kernel-debug-2.4.7-6.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--    5 root     root     10020569 aug 29 11:53
kernel-enterprise-2.4.7-6.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--    5 root     root     10011504 aug 29 11:52
kernel-smp-2.4.7-6.i686.rpm
[root@halden RPMS]# uname -a
Linux halden 2.4.7-5smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 28 21:05:40 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
[root@halden RPMS]# rpm -q mkinitrd
mkinitrd-3.2.2-1
[root@halden RPMS]#

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2001-08-30 15:30:23 UTC
Teg, could you send me (or attach) your grub.conf?

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-08-30 15:33:09 UTC
Created attachment 30196 [details]
My grub.conf after upgrade

Comment 3 Erik Troan 2001-08-30 15:43:20 UTC
the grub.conf had a default line which was invalid. grubby is fixed in CVS not
to care.

I don't know how it got this way.

katzj, can you build a new mkinitrd?

Comment 4 Erik Troan 2001-08-30 16:37:44 UTC
the root cause of this was just fixed in CVS.

we need to have a new mkinitrd package built