Bug 571614

Summary:	grubby stuck while editing grub.conf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	grubby	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2010-03-09 01:00:55 UTC

Description of problem:

While applying rawhide updates yum got stuck when updating kernel.  A peek into a process table revealed the following:

root      2249  7.2 20.2 977388 99520 pts/0    S+   16:53   0:54  |       \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum --skip-broken --exclude=gdm update
root     10621  0.0  0.2 104900  1212 pts/0    S+   17:00   0:00  |           \_ /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.g1WDRE 4
root     10624  0.0  0.2 105032  1384 pts/0    S+   17:00   0:00  |               \_ /bin/bash /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --install 2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64
root     10637 98.2  0.1  13368   868 pts/0    R+   17:00   5:42  |                   \_ /sbin/grubby --add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64 --copy-default --title Fedora (2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64) --args=root=LABEL=/1  --remove-kernel=TITLE=Fedora (2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64)

Nothing was happening until I killed a process 10637. This excerpt from yum.log:

Mar 08 16:59:59 Updated: c-ares-1.7.0-3.fc14.i686
Mar 08 17:07:24 Installed: kernel-2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64

gives an idea about a wall clock time.

A subsequent examination revealed that /boot/ content was complete with a new initramfs in place (I have hostonly="yes" in /etc/dracut.conf) and all 2.6.33-0.48.rc8.git1.fc14 elements gone both from /boot and from grub.conf - exactly like expected.  Only there was nothing in grub.conf for 2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64 and apparently it was not going to show up.

After a manual edit of grub.conf to add a missing 2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64 stanza that kernel booted without any undue fuss.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grubby-7.0.13-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Not very so far.  This is the second incident of that sort I have seen but this one after a number of uneventfull updates.  The previous one looked also as in that description above.


Additional info:
It happened to me once before in not so distant past.  A number of updates after that went through without incidents and I could not see what can possibly cause something like that so I chalked this to "cosmic rays".  It appears though that this may be not that rare.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:00:42 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

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