Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 471321
long append="..." causes yaboot to reject entire yaboot.conf (MAX_TOKEN too small)
Last modified: 2008-12-13 10:00:37 EST
Created attachment 323398 [details] yaboot-1.3.14-bigger-max-token.patch yaboot's second/cfg.c has: #define MAX_TOKEN 200 When yaboot parses its config file, if it encounters a quoted string (like append="...") longer than MAX_TOKEN, it rejects the entire config. Typical preupgrade usage uses ~250 chars, which means preupgrade currently renders ppc systems unbootable without this patch. Suggest increasing MAX_TOKEN to.. let's say 511. cfg.c does "char buf[MAX_TOKEN+1]", and everyone loves powers of 2.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fixed in rawhide yaboot-1.3.14-7.fc11
yaboot-1.3.13-13.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yaboot-1.3.13-13.fc9
yaboot-1.3.13-9.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yaboot-1.3.13-9.fc8
yaboot-1.3.13-9.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
yaboot-1.3.14-8.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yaboot-1.3.14-8.fc10
yaboot-1.3.13-13.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
yaboot-1.3.14-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.