Bug 645230

Summary: no initrd after fc13 update
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jerry Amundson <jamundso>
Component: grubbyAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jerry Amundson 2010-10-21 04:40:16 UTC
Description of problem:
no initrd after fc13 update

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
at least once

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install
2.update
3.
  
Actual results:
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

Expected results:
Happiness.

Additional info:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=246592
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249039
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1389424

From the bad grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_elm-LogVol00 rd_MD_UUID=a6e5ac69:727267da:bef42c99:8f44ead1 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol01 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_elm-LogVol00 rd_MD_UUID=a6e5ac69:727267da:bef42c99:8f44ead1 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol01 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.img

After 
yum erase $(rpm -qa kernel | sort | tail -1)
and
yum update
this is grub.conf:

default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_elm-LogVol00 rd_MD_UUID=a6e5ac69:727267da:bef42c99:8f44ead1 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol01 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_elm-LogVol00 rd_MD_UUID=a6e5ac69:727267da:bef42c99:8f44ead1 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol01 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.img

Comment 1 Jerry Amundson 2010-10-21 04:42:42 UTC
Oops, poor cut/paste. The new grub.conf does have the needed initrd:
title Fedora (2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_elm-LogVol00 rd_MD_UUID=a6e5ac69:727267da:bef42c99:8f44ead1 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=vg_elm/LogVol01 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.img

Comment 2 Brian Lane 2010-10-21 15:43:47 UTC
In the future, could you summarize the problem instead of pointing to external resource. It makes it easier to triage the bugs.

It looks like the problem is that the new initramfs-* file isn't created in /boot/ and therefore grub.conf doesn't include it.

Could you attach the /var/log/yum.log file to this bug? That should contain any errors logged during the install of the new kernel.

Comment 3 Jerry Amundson 2010-10-22 00:27:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> In the future, could you summarize the problem instead of pointing to external
> resource. It makes it easier to triage the bugs.

OK, sorry. What I was seeing seemed so implausible, that I thought it would help to show support from other experiences in the community... :-)

Comment 4 Jerry Amundson 2010-10-22 00:40:22 UTC
Created attachment 454958 [details]
yum.log

Not much to see in yum.log - I'll attach messages shortly.

Comment 5 Jerry Amundson 2010-10-22 00:42:48 UTC
Created attachment 454959 [details]
messages

Comment 6 Brian Lane 2010-10-22 00:48:30 UTC
Nothing out of the ordinary in either of these. How much space do you have available in your /boot partition?

Comment 7 Jerry Amundson 2010-10-22 02:17:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Nothing out of the ordinary in either of these. How much space do you have
> available in your /boot partition?

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1                495832     97839    372394  21% /boot

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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2011-06-28 11:22:47 UTC
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