Bug 818715

Summary: Bad grub.cfg generated after kernel upgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh>
Component: grubbyAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: bcl, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, pjones
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Description Jonathan Ryshpan 2012-05-03 18:59:58 UTC
Created attachment 581941 [details]
non-working grub.cfg

Description of problem: Whenever the kernel is upgraded on a laptop running LXDE under Fedora-16 using yumex, /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is generated.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernel: kernel-3.3.4-1.fc16.i686
Yum: yum-3.4.3-23.fc16.noarch
Yumex: yumex-3.0.4-1.fc16.noarch

How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade the kernel using yumex
2. Reboot
  
Actual results: These messages appear on the screen:
  dracut warning no root device "block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d...af"  found     
  dracut warning no root device "block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d...af"  found
  dropping to debug shell
  sh: 0 can't access tty:  job control turned off
  dracut:/#

Expected results: System boots


Additional info: In the attached grub.cfg file, note that the "root=UUID" entries are not all the same; the first one, which is wrong, is different from the others, which are all the same and are correct.  A good grub.cfg file can be generated by running grub2-mkconfig.

Comment 1 Jonathan Ryshpan 2012-05-16 20:06:38 UTC
No improvement after installing the latest grub and kernel:
grub2-1.99-13.fc16.3.i686
kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686

Comment 2 Jonathan Ryshpan 2012-08-06 19:08:56 UTC
Unchanged after installing the latest grub and kernel:
grub2-1.99-13.fc16.3.i686
kernel-3.4.7-1.fc16.i686

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