Bug 699553

Summary: Output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" during kernel update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.6CC: ddumas, robert.scheck, rrajaram
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-bz699553-correct-echo-by-vecho.patch none

Description Robert Scheck 2011-04-25 23:13:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
Output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" is shown during kernel update. From
a short search, this comes from /sbin/mkinitrd. Normally, RPM-based updates or
installations should not output anything, thus this is treated as a bug.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-68.el5_6.1

How reproducible:
Everytime, see above and below.

Actual results:
[...]
Running Transaction
  Installing     : kernel                                               1/4 
Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf
  Installing     : kmod-microsoft-hyperv-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5             2/4 
  Updating       : microsoft-hyperv                                     3/4 
  Cleanup        : microsoft-hyperv                                     4/4 
[...]

Please ignore the microsoft-hyperv modules, they are not related to this.

Expected results:
No output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" during kernel install/upgrade.

Additional info:
I think, the "echo" should be either a "vecho" or the line should not exist
at all in /sbin/mkinitrd (overleft from debug?).
Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2011-04-25 23:22:15 UTC 
I've cross-filed this issue as Service Request 00457059 and 00457061 (myself
and a customer's one).
Comment 2 Brian Lane 2011-04-25 23:54:11 UTC 
This is caused by the patch for bug 564392, which should have use vecho.
Comment 3 Robert Scheck 2011-04-27 09:22:57 UTC 
Created attachment 495156 [details]
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-bz699553-correct-echo-by-vecho.patch