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Bug 231144

Summary: pygrub can leave stale vmlinuz and initrd data around on error
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Component: xenAssignee: Markus Armbruster <armbru>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0CC: clalance, steved, xen-maint
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0305 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Proposed fix derived from xen-unstable cset 12494 none

Description Chris Lalancette 2007-03-06 14:51:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
If xen encounters an error after extracting the kernel and initrd from the /boot
partition, it leaves the vmlinuz.xxxx and initrd.xxxx around in the /var/lib/xen
directory.  As a simple example, attempting to boot a paravirt Xen guest with a
bare-metal kernel will reproduce this behavior.  pygrub (and/or xm) should
really clean up after itself on error, so as not to fill up the /var/lib/xen
directory with useless vmlinuz and initrd files.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-16 04:03:44 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 7 Markus Armbruster 2007-10-29 17:52:37 UTC 
Created attachment 242191 [details]
Proposed fix derived from xen-unstable cset 12494
Comment 9 Daniel Berrangé 2008-01-03 21:11:55 UTC 
Fix built for QA

$ brew latest-pkg dist-5E-qu-candidate xen
Build                                     Tag                   Built by
----------------------------------------  --------------------  ----------------
xen-3.0.3-43.el5                          dist-5E-qu-candidate  berrange

* Thu Jan  3 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange> - 3.0.3-43.el5
- Cleanup kernel/initrd after pygrub errors (rhbz #231144)
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:19:33 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0305.html