Bug 150592 – up2date kernel - no module lpfc found for kernel - aborting

Bug 150592 - up2date kernel - no module lpfc found for kernel - aborting

Summary:	up2date kernel - no module lpfc found for kernel - aborting

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Tom Coughlan
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Reported:	2005-03-08 15:09 EST by Lance A. Brown
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-03-08 18:15:26 EST
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Description Lance A. Brown 2005-03-08 15:09:06 EST

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Description of problem:
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with an Emulex Corporation LP9000 Fibre Channel Host Adapter installed using drivers downloaded from emulex.

Upgrading the kernel using 'up2date -u' resulted in a non-bootable system after the install of the kernel-smp RPM failed to create a proper initrd image or update /boot/grub/grub.conf properly.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install LP9000 card
2. Install lpfc driver per instructions included with package
3. Upgrade to current RHEL3 kernel using 'up2date -u'
4. Script failes because lpfc driver is not available in new kernel
5. kernel is installed, but /boot/grub/grub.conf is improperly updated.
  

Actual Results:  System is not bootable.  Grub comes up, but the only kernel available does not boot because its initrd image is missing.

Expected Results:  Old kernel entries in grub.conf should not have been deleted.
Old kernel RPM should not have been removed after failure of install scripts for new kernel RPM.

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Comment 1 Lance A. Brown 2005-03-08 15:10:07 EST

Forgot to add this.  This appears to be the same problem, with a different
module, as bug #149120 "up2date kernel - No module ieee1394 found for kernel -
aborting"

Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-03-08 16:41:08 EST

Hello, Lance.  I'm not sure why you are trying to use an externally
built lpfc driver, since RHEL3 contains a supported (internal) driver
since U4.  Does the RHEL3 driver work okay for you?

Comment 3 Lance A. Brown 2005-03-08 18:05:10 EST

Teach me to not read the release notes closely....
I was using the 'lpfcdd' driver from emulex because the RH-provided kernels
didn't have support.  Changing to the 'lpfc' driver let me get things working
without the emulex-provided driver.

Comment 4 Ernie Petrides 2005-03-08 18:15:26 EST

Excellent.  Thanks for the update, Lance.  I'll close this BZ for now as
WORKSFORME.  But if you have further problems, feel free to reopen it.

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