From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030701 Galeon/1.3.7 Description of problem: After working around bug 105015 (by adding a Provides line to to the modutils spec and rebuilding), I installed the kernel package available at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.0-0.test5.1.43.i686.rpm (I have also upgraded the associated packages provided there, including mkinitrd). rpm produced the following output: FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.0-0.test5.1.43': No such file or directory No dep file found for kernel 2.6.0-0.test5.1.43 mkinitrd failed error: %post(kernel-2.6.0-0.test5.1.43) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.0-0.test5.1.43 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the packages from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ 2. upgrade the non-kernel packages 3. install the appropriate kernel package Additional info:
I should have said - I'm performing these steps on a machine running a "fairly stock" install of RH 9.
this seems to be fixed with the latest test kernel rpms, closing.