Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 456763
grubby hangs - continuously reading /sys/block/sda/slaves
Last modified: 2009-01-09 01:41:34 EST
Description of problem: grubby hangs when installing a new kernel package. strace indicates that it is repeatedly opening /sys/block/sda/slaves Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install new kernel package (usually via yum update). 2. grubby hangs. Actual results: grubby hangs Expected results: grubby should update /boot/grub/grub.conf and exit. Additional info: [root@home ~]# mount /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/sde1 on /boot/grub type vfat (rw,dmask=0022,fmask=0133) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/md10 on /pub type ext3 (rw,noexec,nodev) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) [root@home ~]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sde1 /boot/grub vfat dmask=0022,fmask=0133 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/md10 /pub ext3 nodev,noexec 0 2
Created attachment 312708 [details] strace of grubby hang
Created attachment 312709 [details] grub.conf before installing kernel-2.6.25.11-60.fc8
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