Bug 605226

Description of problem:
I just upgraded from F12 to F13 and the new kernel was not installed properly (i.e. on the root partition but not on the boot partition, leaving me with an unusable system, because all the modules for the kernels that remained in /boot/ were deleted.. *yay*). With the help of a live system, I manually copied the new kernel (/mnt/root/boot/) onto the boot partition (/mnt/boot/) and edited the grub config. That worked.

Now I want yum to properly install the new kernel, just because I don't know whether I did everything right. yum reinstall kernel doesn't work. yum remove kernel && yum install kernel doesn't work either because it removes almost every package, too.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
muelli@bigbox ~ $ yum --version
3.2.27
  Installed: rpm-4.8.0-14.fc13.x86_64 at 2010-06-17 00:19
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2010-04-23 11:24
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2010-04-23

  Installed: yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch at 2010-06-17 01:25
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2010-05-03 15:53
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2010-05-03
muelli@bigbox ~ $ 


How reproducible:
Upgrade from F12 to F13 using preupgrade. See it failing. Spend hours to figure out why networking and audio doesn't work. Find out that the kernel modules were deleted and the new kernel wasn't installed properly, i.e. the modules for the new kernel are all there but the boot menu doesn't offer the right version. Be amused that even the ext2 driver for mounting the boot partition is missing so that you can't even copy the new kernel onto the boot partition. Finally manage to copy the kernel, boot and try to reinstall the new kernel properly.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum reinstall kernel
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Actual results:
muelli@bigbox ~ $ sudo yum reinstall kernel
[sudo] password for muelli: 
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 30690.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum
    Memory : 121 M RSS (500 MB VSZ)
    Started: Thu Jun 17 14:49:43 2010 - 01:42 ago
    State  : Sleeping, pid: 30690
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum
    Memory : 121 M RSS (500 MB VSZ)
    Started: Thu Jun 17 14:49:43 2010 - 01:44 ago
    State  : Sleeping, pid: 30690
Setting up Reinstall Process
Found 247 installed debuginfo package(s)
Enabling livna-debuginfo: rpm.livna.org for 13 - x86_64 - Debug
Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - x86_64 - Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Nonfree - Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Free - Updates Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Nonfree - Updates Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Free - Debug
Enabling updates-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug
Package kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 is allowed multiple installs, skipping
Nothing to do
muelli@bigbox ~ $ 

sudo yum reinstall kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64


Expected results:
I expected yum to just reinstall the kernel properly, with all the post installation hooks...

Additional info:
yum remove kernel && yum install kernel is not an option.
yum downgrade kernel && yum install kernel doesn't work for the same reasons.
finding the RPM of the kernel, to then do a rpm -i $RPM manually, fails too:
muelli@bigbox ~ $ find /var/cache/yum/ -name '*kernel*' | wc -l
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