Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 183091
error resolving symbolic link
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:25:40 EST
Description of problem: During first "yum update" after FC5test3 install on Apple Macintosh Mini (powerpc-32), the "Installing kernel" section gave: error resolving symbolic link ./../../devices/pci0002:20/0002:20:0d.0/ide0/0.0&�B0: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.5.1-5 How reproducible: Haven't tried. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC5test3-DVD-ppc on Apple Macintosh Mini. 2. go through firstboot. 3. yum update, including kernel ppc 2.6.15-1.1977_FC5 development 16 M Actual results: ./../../devices/pci0002:20/0002:20:0d.0/ide0/0.0&�B0: No such file or directory Expected results: Successful install Additional info:
Created attachment 125268 [details] output from "lspci" and "lspci -v"
Oh, and yum then hung, spinning with 64% user CPU, and 34% system CPU according to the summary in "top". The individual process with most time was 'mkinitrd': top - 20:42:43 up 1:09, 3 users, load average: 2.29, 1.81, 1.32 Tasks: 111 total, 3 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 62.4% us, 35.3% sy, 1.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 514180k total, 509992k used, 4188k free, 35980k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 220404k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3627 root 25 0 5052 1620 1312 R 83.7 0.3 20:36.39 mkinitrd 2409 jreiser 15 0 74964 20m 14m S 5.3 4.0 0:25.22 gnome-terminal 2223 root 15 0 70736 18m 10m S 3.6 3.8 0:40.79 Xorg 2331 jreiser 15 0 20352 9420 7940 S 2.3 1.8 0:05.64 metacity
[Changed component to kernel.] After killing the yum process, then "rpm -q kernel" showed two: kernel-2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 kernel-2.6.15-1.1977_FC5 but I didn't trust the 1977. So "rpm --erase kernel-2.6.15-1.1977_FC5" and then go to /var/cache/yum/development/packages and "rpm --install kernel-2.6.15-1.1977_FC5". The error repeats: error resolving symbolic link ./../../devices/pci0002:20/0002:20:0d.0/ide0/0.0&�в@: No such file or directory so the underlying problem is reproducible.
Created attachment 125271 [details] output from dmesg Note the curious line marked '####' below in output from dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PCI: Enabling device 0002:20:0d.0 (0000 -> 0002) ##### ide0: Found Apple UniNorth ATA-6 controller, bus ID 3, irq 39
I've enabled kobject debugging in the 1990 build, which should show up at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/devel in an hour or so) Can you grab the dmesg -s 128000 output from that one please ?
Created attachment 125317 [details] output from "dmesg -s 128000" at single-user boot Here is the dmesg output. In order to install kernel-2.6.15-1.1990_FC5, I first had to revert by force to mkinitrd-5.0.26-1 from the FC5test3 install DVD. The updated mkinitrd-5.0.28-1 failed in the middle of installing kernel 1990, with message as in Comment #3 above, leaving no /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.1990.img and no stanza in /etc/yaboot.conf.
Should be fixed in 5.0.29-1 .