Bug 808069

Summary: RHEL 58 ami not booting into updated kernel
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: wes hayutin <whayutin>
Component: relengAssignee: Tomas Kopecek <tkopecek>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 5.8CC: jgreguske
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 5.9   
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Description wes hayutin 2012-03-29 13:31:52 UTC 
Description of problem:

[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# ll /etc/grub.conf 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 26 08:33 /etc/grub.conf -> /boot/grub/grub.conf
[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel 
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# unam e-a
-bash: unam: command not found
[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# uname -a
Linux ip-10-82-214-123 2.6.18-307.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jan 24 20:20:14 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-307.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-307.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5
[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# 



[root@ip-10-82-214-123 ~]# wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
{
  "kernelId" : "aki-08ed0761",
  "ramdiskId" : null,
  "instanceId" : "i-e0c4c984",
  "billingProducts" : [ "bp-6fa54006" ],
  "instanceType" : "m1.large",
  "architecture" : "x86_64",
  "version" : "2010-08-31",
  "availabilityZone" : "us-east-1b",
  "accountId" : "673500695950",
  "imageId" : "ami-fb0ddc92",
  "pendingTime" : "2012-03-29T12:56:44Z",
  "devpayProductCodes" : null,
  "privateIp" : "10.82.214.123",
  "region" : "us-east-1"
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 11:21:53 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.
Comment 2 Jay Greguske 2012-06-14 13:09:15 UTC 
See:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/node/58072
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/58051
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/node/1321